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I couldn't log in with aol desktop.
 

I just wasn't able to log into the forum with aol desktop. Ie and logged in fine. I haven't started a ebay account with aol desktop yet just wondering if they see it is a proxy?

Yes, eb sees it as a proxy. Have 1 account that I log-in w/AOL desktop & if does come up Proxy. If you are going to use AOL, double-check w/ IP Burger - What is my IP Address? Find Your IP Address! or site similar to make sure your real IP has changed before signing-in w/EB. I noticed sometimes my real IP remains the same & I have to sign-off AOL, sign-in again & it changes. Be careful...and also, treat AOL like IE...in essence it is IE...clear cookies, etc. before signing in w/EB.

if I run cc cleaner will it clear all my browsers. I have a apple, running parallels, I use windows for ebay because I can't find a cc cleaner for my mac. On windows I have ie, firefox and just downloaded aol desktop. So running cc cleaner would clean them all No? as long as they are all closed.

"If you are going to use AOL, double-check w/ IP Burger - What is my IP Address? Find Your IP Address! or site similar to make sure your real IP has changed before signing-in w/EB."

Isn't IPBURGER, etc., useless if you have Java? I can have IPBURGER showing the AOL proxy IP, but go to Check IP address. IP check. Find IP address. IP finder. Java IP Test. Static IP address. Hide ip address. Change IP address. Changing IP address. Anonymous IP address. and it shows my true IP.

It isn't that IP Burger is useless..
 

it shows what your IP address not using Java.

However, you are correct. When accessing any web site that may use Java to determine your IP disabling Java is probably prudent.

Then go to the site you recommend and make sure it can no longer pick up your address.

I have been doing this for the past 24 hours - using eBay and PP through AOL 7 with Java disabled, and at Check IP address. IP check. Find IP address. IP finder. Java IP Test. Static IP address. Hide ip address. Change IP address. Changing IP address. Anonymous IP address. they show only the AOL proxy IP info.

I used to do an IPBURGER check when using AOL to assure that EB/PP could not see my true IP address. But now it seems that these were false results. Even thought IPBURGER etc. showed only my AOL proxy IP address, EB/PP could still read my true IP address using this Java system.

So for AOL (and all proxies?) IPBURGER is not longer reliable?

What is unclear to me is if they can actually read it...
 

or just display it. There are options for Java Applets that allow you to do client side operations for display only. Those results cannot be fed back to the server.

Don't know enough about the code that does this, but if someone does, post and let us know.