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Monday, 12 November 2012

How to prevent websites from tracking your location

At times you'll be surprised that when you open some website, it shows you the IP address of your gateway address. What this means is that your physical location of where your accessing or browsing the sites is being tracked based on your IP.

To prevent this tracking of your IP address, follow this very simple process.

  1. Open your internet expolorer
  2. Click on Tools , Scroll down to pick ' Internet Options

3.  After clicking the 'Internet Options, another box similar to the one below will come up. Then click on ' Privacy' on top of the menu bar.
 
4. Finally,  Check the box next to "Never allow websites to request your physical location", as shown below

5. Remember to  Click on Apply and the on the OK button.

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