Anonymous URL Generator
Posted by | Posted in Projects | Posted on 21-10-2008
Anonymous URL Generator can take any URL and anonymize it..
If you own a website you can use our tool to prevent your site from appearing in server logs as the referrer. Why would you want to do this ?
For Example, My Friend runs a Photo Site containing all his Photography work, He doesn’t mind people posting those images on their own website provided they first get permission and also provide a link back, for this reason he didn’t want to disable hot linking to his images. If he wants to find out if any sites are linking to his pictures without permission he just looks at his server referrer logs.
But however as I pointed out to him this isn’t really a sure fire way of knowing if someone is linking to his photos without permission, I said they could just use my URL Anonymizer Generator.
After Generating a link to one of his photos I posted it on one of my sites and clicked it.
My Friend then checked his server logs to see if my site would appear.. and guess what ? It didn’t. The only site that appeared was http://anon.projectarchive.net from that he can’t determine who it is that’s really linking to his site.
Of course there is am sure a few other nice reason to be using this.. but ill leave that how you use this tool up to you.
Oh and sorry for the long story 