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White pages tracking via tethering
 

So i go on whitepages sometimes to get some address ideas and lately I've been getting this error where I can't even access their website (shown at the bottom)

I'm tethering on my phone and getting new IP address each time via airplane mode etc..

Then I get a new pc (just opened) and go to whitepages and get the same error.

I guess somehow they are seeing my tethering phone or something?? This ip address was also never used as i keep a log everytime.

Is there some new security fingerprinting tethering now or something??

Kind of alarming as this isn't even some buying/selling site. Now questioning tethering stealth..




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I'm wondering now, a new ip address via tethering gonna link everything together or something..

Re: White pages tracking via tethering
 

Has to do something with the phone .. checked other laptop i use and can use white pages and is not java disabled..

I think concern is not about using white pages but somehow it's able to see my phone and see some kind of linkage despite ip address being different..

Re: White pages tracking via tethering
 

of course they can see up are using a phone to connect, like any website you visit, but the issue doesn't come from this

Re: White pages tracking via tethering
 

So what do you think about this kind of in your face, I caught you type of alarm from white pages? Jave is enabled and other laptops using wifi don't get this message but tethering phone does.. Something white pages see on the phone that shows something is suspicious ..

And this is what I'm thinking amazon and ebay may eventually gravitate towards where each machine or phone somehow will determine certain things about your online presense ..