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Hi, Beartooth.  I did a search on freshmeat.net with the keyword privacy 
and came up with these apps.  Let us know if you try them  :-)

Here's the first.  It doesn't look to have been updated since 1998, so 
it's ancient.  BTW, I think the author *meant* to say "enhance," not 
"enchange."

  HTTPGate
  by N/A - Monday, September 7th 1998 06:42 EST

About:
HTTPGate is a filtering HTTP Gateway originally intended to enchange 
user's privacy when surfing on the net, but it can also be used to avoid 
censorware systems in web browsing. HTTPGate operates on a user 
definable internet port where the user connects using a web browser. The 
main page shows a text box and a set of options user can choose to avoid 
transmitting some information during client/server negotiation.
http://iki.fi/too/sw/HttpGate/

Here's the second:

Internet Junkbuster
  by N/A - Thursday, June 18th 1998 00:24 EST

About:
The Internet Junkbuster Proxy (TM) blocks unwanted banner ads and 
protects your privacy from cookies and other threats. It's free under 
the GPL. It works as a proxy that stands between your browser and the 
Internet, checking every HTTP request for each resource (including 
graphics) against a blockfile of URLs before sending it over the 
Internet. It can be configured as a plain old non-caching, non-blocking 
proxy as well.

Author:
Junkbusters Corp. <webmaster at junkbusters dot com>
http://www.junkbuster.com

And you should perhaps look at the latest versions of web browsers-- 
such as Opera or Galeon.  They may have these features built in.  I 
remember when I tried Opera that it had some good cookie management 
stuff at least.

--Damon

RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger wrote:

> Back in my old unhappy days under the idiot heel of
> W98, I ran AdAwarePlus from Lavasoft -- and every time
> I got into my account page on Verizon, even with
> cookies refused iirc, it found 22 new items of spyware
> -- twenty-ro, no typo.
> 
> 	Now I may want to get to that page again, with linux.
> But not without protection!
> 
> 	What shall I get, and where?
> 
> --
> RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
> retiree & linux greenhorn running Pan 0.11.2 under RH 7.2 
> Keep in mind that I have no idea what I am talking about.
>