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I don’t understand why exposing one’s IP address to sites that are visited would be any more risky than exposing it to unknown proxy servers in unknown foreign countries.

Also, one’s IP address as well as the encrypted data that is used for communications with many and perhaps most major sites these days is exposed to the servers of the ISP and various other servers on the Internet regardless of which approach is used. And virtually all communications involving financial or other sensitive data are encrypted; even viewing pages at this very forum is accomplished with encrypted data in recent times.

Best regards,
-- Al

Don't let it get you down, but vigilant is to oblivious as prepared is to prey.
You can be at risk walking to your car in a parking lot.
Wishing it weren't so doesn't change the fact....

Schubert was the guy that thought a manufacturer of an amp called the M-60 should be throttled because there happened to be a machine gun with the same model number. My guess is that he has numerous "triggers". 

The more educated you get the more you have . Well know in most of the world .
Not so much in the home of micky mouse , where ignorance is bliss no matter what the IQ .

I 'm used to Europe while anyone would assume I meant the case in hand , buying things not
e.mailing my aunt .

Knowledge can be defined as what’s left in your noggin after you subtract out all that useless stuff you forgot from school.