Talk:Anonymizer
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It reads too much like an advertisement.
I have redirected this article to proxy server. The common meaning of anonymizer is an anonymous proxy with which to serve the web, the common meaning is not Anonymizer plc sop the redirect is strictly correct. if someone else thinks the article is worth having they should set it up at Anonymizer (company) or with some such title but I agree it was pure ad combined with being a spam target, SqueakBox 17:37, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
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If you dig back in the edits, it was a fairly informative article about a historical footnote in the progression of Internet privacy technology. Systems like ZKS Freedom, Onion Routing, and Tor were designed to deal with the obvious shortcomings that trusted anonymizing proxies like Anonymizer present, and it woul be reasonable to expect articles on those topics to reference Anonymizer in stating their motivations for solving the problems with that model. Perhaps reverting the vanity changes, and expanding upon the technical features and limitations of Anonymizer would be a good course of action?
In any case, "proxy servers" are not designed to provide anonymity, in the information security sense of the term, and if reverting is not desired, I would move to delete the page rather than redirect.
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Anonymizer is a registered trademark of Anonymizer Inc. This is in no way a generic term. It is no more appropriate to have it redirect than it would for Xerox or Kleenex to redirect to generic articles. If it is too much like sales, then edit it. It looks like a simple description of the company to me. What it is and what it does. What else should the entry be?
