Is my company logging web activity at home?
It could well become your problem, if you access NSFW content from home using work’s proxy; copies of said NSFW content would end up cached on one of work’s machines, associated in the proxy logs with your laptop. You’re far better off switching work’s proxy off when you’re at home, using FoxyProxy as mentioned before or perhaps one of the rather simpler SwitchProxy or ProxyButton extensions. I use SwitchProxy, and turn its toolbar off so that its only UI contribution is a discreet little proxy selection menu in the status bar. Works very well. Depending how the work proxy is set up, work might actually be using an autoproxy configuration script, and that might in turn be turning the proxy off when you’re not on work’s network. But you’re really far better off seizing control of this yourself. I am also surprised to hear of a work proxy that actually works w
It’s certainly possible that your co’s network is set up in such a way so that even when you’re off site, your traffic is still going through the proxy. This isn’t exactly a common setup because it means the proxy server is exposed to the public Internet and wastes a living ton of bandwidth (it means all your web traffic is going to the company and then back out, for no good reason at all), and to be honest doesn’t seem like the brightest way of doing things, but I’m not your IT department so who knows. I’ve seen weirder. (A more typical setup would be to use a VPN, and only push traffic destined for the company network through the VPN interface.) It wouldn’t be hard to check, though. Just go to any one of the “what is my IP” websites from your work laptop from home, and from another home computer (I’m assuming you have some sort of broadband router). They should show the same IP. If they don’t, then your laptop’s traffic is being proxied through the work system still. I second SwitchP
