PRIVOXY Browser Security and Anonymity

There is an excellent web site: SHEILD'S UP! https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
which will try to find out out much as it can when your browser goes
to this address. It shows you all your available and knowable details,
which of helps if you trying to set up an anonymous proxy server to
hid behind.

I installed PRIVOXY on my Intel MiniMac running OS10.4.8, ad after
doing so, SHEILD'S UP! couldn't find a thing about me when I pointed
my browser to the above address, with PRIVOXY running. It could not
find my IP address, or anything else. Excellent I thought. PRIVOXY
must be working.

However, I then came across this site: http://locateip.co.uk/ which
instantly found and displayed my correct IP address, even though I was
hidding behing PRIVOXY. So I am not as anonymous as I thought.

Does anyone know why, even with PRIVOXY installed, my IP address can
still be found by this site?

Any suggestions for increasing my anonymity?

.

Relevant Pages

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