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Among the services provided by Web anonymizing services are: IP address masking; disabling pop-up windows; and disabling profiling cookies, as well as sometimes collecting information about the people who are trying to create user profiles. In general, once the anonymizer software has been downloaded, the service is activated through clicking a button that appears on the user's toolbar. An anonymizer is usually a Web site that uses a proxy server to process each HTTP request: when the user requests a Web page (by clicking a hyperlink or typing a URL into their browser), the anonymizing server retrieves and displays the information using its own server, which the client has accessed. The remote server (where the requested Web page resides) receives information about the anonymizer server, in place of information about the user's computer. An anonymizer makes a user feel more secure on the Internet, but doesn't permit personalization, which means that the a site cannot tailor its content to suit the individual user, and the user must reenter personal identification repeatedly for sites or services that require that information. SafeWeb and the Anonymizer are the most commonly used such services. Lucent's Bell Labs has created its own version, called Lucent Personalized Web Assistant (LPWA), as have the Naval Research Labs, whose project was called Onion Routing. Both of these projects are now completed. 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