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There are three people in my house. All of us read newspaper posts
from our prior home town paper; using the same Internet access provider. Each month, all of us quickly learn that we have exceeded the monthly "article" limit. Is there any way I can reset. whatever page view "counter" - so that each can have have their own individual usage limit (not collective/ ala sum of our three users)? |
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Dave C wrote:
There are three people in my house. All of us read newspaper posts from our prior home town paper; using the same Internet access provider. Each month, all of us quickly learn that we have exceeded the monthly "article" limit. Is there any way I can reset. whatever page view "counter" - so that each can have have their own individual usage limit (not collective/ ala sum of our three users)? I you don't have to login to the newspaper, usually it'll be clearing cookies from the website. |
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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
... Dave C wrote: There are three people in my house. All of us read newspaper posts from our prior home town paper; using the same Internet access provider. Each month, all of us quickly learn that we have exceeded the monthly "article" limit. Is there any way I can reset. whatever page view "counter" - so that each can have have their own individual usage limit (not collective/ ala sum of our three users)? I you don't have to login to the newspaper, usually it'll be clearing cookies from the website. Might the site also be logging the number of page hits from an IP address? And all the accesses from the various PCs in a household will appear as coming from the same public WAN address. If your ISP allocates IP addresses dynamically, you might find that rebooting the router results in a different address so for a while you appear to be a new "person" - until that address uses up its quota. I've found the clearing cookies from a given PC doesn't solve the quota problem with local papers. One paper is particularly stingy, only allowing two stories to be read per month unless you have a subscription account. |
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Dave C wrote:
There are three people in my house. All of us read newspaper posts from our prior home town paper; using the same Internet access provider. Each month, all of us quickly learn that we have exceeded the monthly "article" limit. Is there any way I can reset. whatever page view "counter" - so that each can have have their own individual usage limit (not collective/ ala sum of our three users)? It'll based on the IP address assigned to your router by ISP. Powering off and on the router might force it get a new IP, but probably not. Best bet is for each of you to get your own VPN. There are plenty available for free. |
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On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 18:46:43 -0000 (UTC), Chris
wrote: Dave C wrote: There are three people in my house. All of us read newspaper posts from our prior home town paper; using the same Internet access provider. Each month, all of us quickly learn that we have exceeded the monthly "article" limit. Is there any way I can reset. whatever page view "counter" - so that each can have have their own individual usage limit (not collective/ ala sum of our three users)? It'll based on the IP address assigned to your router by ISP. Powering off and on the router might force it get a new IP, but probably not. He can probably get a new IP by changing the MAC address of the device that connects to the cable/dsl modem, then rebooting that device. Best bet is for each of you to get your own VPN. There are plenty available for free. +1 on the VPN. |
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"Chris" wrote
| It'll based on the IP address assigned to your router by ISP. Powering off | and on the router might force it get a new IP, but probably not. | Do people have unique IP addresses? I was under the impression that a cable connection is actually part of a party line, with hundreds of other customers sharing the same IP address. Many websites don't even have their own IP address. |
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In article , Mayayana
wrote: Do people have unique IP addresses? yes. I was under the impression that a cable connection is actually part of a party line, with hundreds of other customers sharing the same IP address. no. Many websites don't even have their own IP address. yes they do. |
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Mayayana wrote:
"Chris" wrote | It'll based on the IP address assigned to your router by ISP. Powering off | and on the router might force it get a new IP, but probably not. | Do people have unique IP addresses? I was under the impression that a cable connection is actually part of a party line, with hundreds of other customers sharing the same IP address. Many websites don't even have their own IP address. I'm on ADSL, and my previous ISP had a pool of around 3 million DHCP IP addresses. Powering off the modem and powering on again, would give a different IP address. Cable modems are different. They're not likely to be as stealthy as my ADSL situation. The MAC address may affect whether the cable modem even comes up. With ADSL, the phone company has some idea what copper pair is connected to your house, so you can't exactly plug the modem in some place you're not supposed to, and have it work. Your userID/password would be associated with a single physical location and copper demarc. If I walk into my neighbors house and use their copper pair, the authentication process at the telco will deny the connection. My networking equipment could have any old MAC address I want, without affecting authentication or operation. I can switch modems, if they're both loaded with the same userid/password pair in the auto-login. The ADSL can be set to log on and re-establish a session, as soon as the power comes back. Mine is set that way right now, but wasn't always that way. Now that I'm on VOIP, it makes a bit more sense to autolog it (so the phone can ring when I'm asleep). There's nothing really amazing about this. Underneath, it's using the same ole PPP that dialup modems used. Just a different version (PPPOE or PPPOA or a ton of other variants I didn't know existed). ******* Deleting cookies is harder than it looks, because of the variety of techniques used. Nobody really sticks to just the "cookie file" when money is involved. They'll use evercookie techniques. I don't even think I could safely clean Chrome, without breaking something. Other browsers are a bit easier to clean. I have one browser where clicking "remove private data" or whatever, does nothing. And the cache is still fully loaded. Nothing a hammer cannot fix :-) So if I "want to read the newspaper", I use the browser where cleaning is possible, and remove whatever passes for evercookie. I suppose you could try an incognito session using the browser, but they must be able to detect that. If any browser causes a $$$ site to lose "control", there's got to be a back door so they can regain control. Browsers should always "bend" to support commercial interest, not vice versa. If a person wants to make a profession out of this, there's always GreaseMonkey or TamperMonkey. Maybe a file for one of those already exists, to defeat the newspaper company tracking attempts. You could try "NameOfNewspaper GreaseMonkey TamperMonkey" and see what pops up. All I managed to make work with those, is the barest of "Hello World" programs, just to prove what triggers it and how it works. It's outside my pay scale to write actual useful scripts in .js. Paul |
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On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 23:16:47 -0400, Paul wrote:
Mayayana wrote: "Chris" wrote | It'll based on the IP address assigned to your router by ISP. Powering off | and on the router might force it get a new IP, but probably not. | Do people have unique IP addresses? Generally yes. Each household gets a unique public (routable) IP address, but of course multiple people can share that address if they use a router to translate from that address to another address (NAT). Next door to me there are 3 unrelated adults renting a house. To the outside world, they share a single IP address, but on their side of their router they each have a unique (non-routable) LAN address. I was under the impression that a cable connection is actually part of a party line, with hundreds of other customers sharing the same IP address. Huh? Crazy talk, but that might refer to HFC networks from the late 1990's, before Baseline Privacy (BPI) existed, where everyone on a given node was essentially on the same network, (people could see each other's shared folders and print to strange printers), but that didn't mean that two or more people used the same IP address. Each household still got one or more unique IP addresses assigned. Many websites don't even have their own IP address. Every website has an IP address, but what I think he means is that multiple websites can share an IP address. In that case, instead of using the address to figure out which site the client is requesting, the web server examines the Host header. Alternatively, multiple websites can share an IP address if each site listens on a unique port. 80 and 443 are the HTTP and HTTPS defaults, but nearly any port can be used. I'm on ADSL, and my previous ISP had a pool of around 3 million DHCP IP addresses. Powering off the modem and powering on again, would give a different IP address. Cable modems are different. They're not likely to be as stealthy as my ADSL situation. The MAC address may affect whether the cable modem even comes up. The MAC address of the cable modem needs to be registered with the ISP, but it's the MAC address of the first connected device, the device that's connected to the LAN side of the modem, that determines which IP address will be assigned to the WAN side of that device. Many times that device is a router, but it's frequently a PC. Either way, change the MAC and you get a different IP. Change it back and you get the old IP, assuming it's still available. As long as the lease is valid, they'll hold it for you. With ADSL, the phone company has some idea what copper pair is connected to your house, so you can't exactly plug the modem in some place you're not supposed to, and have it work. With cable modems, once the modem is registered it should work anywhere on that node. Then again, people don't usually grab their modem and head to the neighbor's house. |
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Mayayana wrote:
"Chris" wrote | It'll based on the IP address assigned to your router by ISP. Powering off | and on the router might force it get a new IP, but probably not. | Do people have unique IP addresses? Not people,devices. Devices directly connected to the internet have to have an IP address, by definition. I was under the impression that a cable connection is actually part of a party line, with hundreds of other customers sharing the same IP address. Not sure how cable companies do it, but ADSL and fibre connections all have an IP allocated to them from the pool that their service provider owns. I imagine cable is not that different. Many websites don't even have their own IP address. False. All web domains have an IP address. Again by definition. Bigger domains will exist on multiple IPs for resilience. |
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"chris" wrote
| I was under | the impression that a cable connection is actually | part of a party line, with hundreds of other customers | sharing the same IP address. | | Not sure how cable companies do it, but ADSL and fibre connections all have | an IP allocated to them from the pool that their service provider owns. I | imagine cable is not that different. | I wonder. There's been talk for some time of IP4 addresses being short. And as Char noted, in the early days of cable, neighbors used to find each other in their Network Neighborhood. It seems that it would be cheaper and allow for more expansion if cable companies can share IP addresses across a group. So it seems farfetched that everyone online could have their own IP address. But I don't know the details of how it works. I thought maybe someone else might. | Many websites don't even | have their own IP address. | | False. All web domains have an IP address. | Again by definition. They have an IP address by definition, but not necessarily a dedicated IP address, which is what I'm wondering about. If you look at webhosting options you'll see that a dedicated IP is sometimes an option. Probably the cheapo servers like Dreamhost don't even offer it. That limits how many customers they can have. And IP4 addresses have already run out. Shared IP means aaa.com, bbb.com and ccc.com can all have the same IP address, which points to their server. A requested page would then be determined from the GET. So Dreamhost doesn't have to dedicate either a device or an IP to an individual customer. They just put each domain in a separate folder on one machine and figure it out as the GETS come in. Given all that, it made me wonder whether a site can really track visitors, realistically, by IP. In fact, it's not unusual in my own web logs to see commercial GETs coming from numerous, similar IPs, even for one page and it's related images. And it's common (I don't know why) to see things like an IP that resolves to Brazil in terms of geolocation load a webpage, followed by an IP from Europe that downloads a linked file. Yet both show the same company in a hostname resolution. I guess the test would be whether deleting cookies when the browser closes, and blocking local storage "supercookies", allows one to get more articles. And it could also be possible to track people with web bugs, in which case deleting cache would also be necessary. All of those methods seems more realistic than IP blocking, but I just don't know enough about it to be sure. Increasingly I've seen what might be called "passive aggressive" blocking. Pages designed to malfunction if you don't allow them to run code, show ads, etc. Forbes.com, for example, started making their page all javascript. It's effectively a software program. Similarly, someone sent a link to a shopping page at "Google Express" the other day. (First I've heard of that site). With script blocked the page was blank. Looking at the source code I saw that Google had embedded even the page text into javascript. Little or no HTML. They're deliberately showing a blank page if script is disabled. "Yes, we want you to buy stuff here, but not if we can't spy on you!" In a similar vein, npr.org (of all people, a non- profit news organization!) periodically shows me a page with two choices: 1)Enable script and agree to allow us to spy on you or 2) View our homepage as nothing but a list of links. And many sites now do things like putting a big, gray rectangle on top of the content, which gets removed by script. So without script I have to disable CSS in order to read the page. Yet I can always read articles at NYT as long as I allow cookies. Though I've never tried reaching their daily limit and deleting cookies. I'm usually only going there to see one thing that's linked from elsewhere. Interestingly, NYT was one of the first to create a "paywall" and they claim their online subscriptions are very successful, especially among young people. |
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In article , Mayayana
wrote: ... it made me wonder whether a site can really track visitors, realistically, by IP. absolutely, along with a lot of other things. |
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On 8/10/2018 5:47 AM, Mayayana wrote:
Yet I can always read articles at NYT as long as I allow cookies. Though I've never tried reaching their daily limit and deleting cookies. Daily limit? The current NYT limit is 5 articles per MONTH. they claim their online subscriptions are very successful Digital subscriber numbers have recently shot up in the newspaper industry in general, a phenomenon some refer to as the “Trump bump"... |
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:47:46 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote: "chris" wrote | I was under | the impression that a cable connection is actually | part of a party line, with hundreds of other customers | sharing the same IP address. | | Not sure how cable companies do it, but ADSL and fibre connections all have | an IP allocated to them from the pool that their service provider owns. I | imagine cable is not that different. | I wonder. There's been talk for some time of IP4 addresses being short. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion And as Char noted, in the early days of cable, neighbors used to find each other in their Network Neighborhood. It seems that it would be cheaper and allow for more expansion if cable companies can share IP addresses across a group. It's easier to give everyone a unique IP address. Large scale NAT is called "Carrier Grade NAT" (CGNAT), but most ISPs don't want to deal with its complexities, nor do they have the hardware or the capabilities to do so. NAT in a SoHo router is one thing; NAT for an entire ISP is a whole different world. So it seems farfetched that everyone online could have their own IP address. But I don't know the details of how it works. I thought maybe someone else might. It's not farfetched at all, and lots of people know how it works. What questions do you have? | Many websites don't even | have their own IP address. | | False. All web domains have an IP address. | Again by definition. They have an IP address by definition, but not necessarily a dedicated IP address, which is what I'm wondering about. It's called virtual hosting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting IIS, Internet Information Services, is included with every version of Windows. IIS supports virtual hosting, so you can test it there. Just create multiple sites in IIS, all using the same IP but different root folders. IIS will check the Host header on each request to see which site is being requested. If you look at webhosting options you'll see that a dedicated IP is sometimes an option. Probably the cheapo servers like Dreamhost don't even offer it. That limits how many customers they can have. Not really. Putting it another way, virtual hosting limits the number of IP address that are required. And IP4 addresses have already run out. No, they haven't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion Shared IP means aaa.com, bbb.com and ccc.com can all have the same IP address, which points to their server. A requested page would then be determined from the GET. So Dreamhost doesn't have to dedicate either a device or an IP to an individual customer. They just put each domain in a separate folder on one machine and figure it out as the GETS come in. You're talking about the Host header, which is mandatory in HTTP/1.1 requests (what you call GETs). You can see it with any HTTP-aware tool. The easiest is probably curl.exe with the -v option. Given all that, it made me wonder whether a site can really track visitors, realistically, by IP. Generally, sites track visitors by cookie, but if cookies are disabled at the client, they'll fall back to IP address. IP tracking is not optimal, especially since an IP address could be used by different people at different times, or different people at the same time. In fact, it's not unusual in my own web logs to see commercial GETs coming from numerous, similar IPs, even for one page and it's related images. And it's common (I don't know why) to see things like an IP that resolves to Brazil in terms of geolocation load a webpage, followed by an IP from Europe that downloads a linked file. Yet both show the same company in a hostname resolution. No idea what you're trying to say there. -chris |
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On 08/10/2018 01:58 AM, chris wrote:
[snip] Many websites don't even have their own IP address. False. All web domains have an IP address. Again by definition. Bigger domains will exist on multiple IPs for resilience. That one was true. Read the "THEIR OWN" part. Nothing was said about not having an IP address. |
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