surfing or chatting invisible on AOL

Does anyone know how to surf on aol, and be invisible to anyone
checking if I'm online or in a chat room. I've tried the ghosting
trick (done offline) and it won't work. I've also tried the privacy
settings on the buddy list preferences and wont work.

I use version 4 in case that's a factor. I hope this is an easy one
for the tricksters. Please dont give me a lecture on how much aol
Sucks, thats not the question. Besides it's free at my station.

Thanks Printers69

 

Thanx eddie, I've use a proxy with my IE5 browser and it works.
I know there is ways to have privacy with AOL, I'll find it on the
web, thanks for trying.

Printers

 

You can be invisible with AOL's privacy settings, but you have to make them very restrictive.

(I hope this applies to 4.0, haven't used that one in a while)

In the Privacy Settings (under Buddy List), click Block All AOL Members and Instant Message Users.

Then, at the bottom of that window, under Apply Preferences to the Following Features, click Buddy Lists and Instant Messages.

Then click SAVE.

Once you've done this, you will not appear online to anyone who uses buddy lists or instant messenger clients.

Keep in mind, however, that some spammers mine names by visiting chat rooms directly and doing a screen scrape of the Room Member List. If you are in an AOL chat room, you are *NEVER* "surfing" anonymously to anyone who looks in/enters that room.

And, in fact, you are *NEVER* truly surfing anonymously in any circumstance, and especially on AOL, which monitors (or at least, CAN monitor) your every move.

And, not to put too fine a point on it, even with a proxy and generic web surfing, you can still be traced if the right people want to badly enough.