Monthly Archives: January 2010

Search Engine Startpage.com Offers Anonymous Web Browsing

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 29, 2010

Startpage, the world’s most private search engine, and its E.U. brand, Ixquick, announced yesterday the release of a  proxy service that allows users to surf the web with complete privacy. The proxy offers complete anonymity, since the user never makes direct contact with the third-party website. The user’s IP address is invisible to the viewed [...]

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Surf the Web Wearing an Invisibility Cloak with These 4 Portable Anonymous Browsers

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 28, 2010
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The web is anonymous. That’s the greatest myth going around for those not in the know. A newbie equates anonymity with invisibleness. Our email ID or username may cover up for our real identity, we can give fake ages and even genders, or hide behind a dopey eyed avatar but in the end, that’s mere [...]

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Hide My IP 5.0 – Newly Released For 2010 – $5.00 Discount Off

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 27, 2010
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Hide My IP is one of the most popular hide ip solutions available on the market. With a simple and easy to use interface Hide My IP allows you to surf anonymously, change your IP address, prevent identity theft, and guard against hacker intrusions.  Hide My IP v5.0 (newly released for 2010) is the most user [...]

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Hide IP Tools & VPN Christmas Giveaway: Statistics

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 26, 2010

It has been more than one month since the Hide IP Tools & VPN Mega Christmas Giveaway campaign is closed and I finally had some time to put together some statistics.  The overall results are quite amazing: 245 licenses were given away valued at $8,638. 2,542 comments were posted. The giveaway posts were visited 16,142 times. There [...]

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Launch of Iplayerproxy4u.com

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 25, 2010

The name in reality says it all, a proxy to enable users to watch the BBC Iplayer from outside of the UK, was launched last week for fellow expats like Stephen, who miss watching unique content from the BBC, ITV and other UK based channels.   Although there are huge benefits in hiding your ip [...]

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Firefox 3.6 Add-on for Chrome-Like Incognito Window

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 24, 2010

Firefox 3.6 was released a few days ago and there are already add-ons dedicated to the new version. One of them upgrades Private Browsing feature to be more like the Chrome’s Incognito Window. The Private Browsing Window add-on starts a new instance of Firefox alongside your existing session, with a new profile in which Private Browsing is enabled. [...]

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Tor Project Servers Hacked

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 23, 2010

According to a report on Heise Online, the German IT security portal, two of the seven directory authority servers (moria1 and gabelmoo) that the Tor Project uses to run its anonymous browsing service have been compromised, along with a new server that the project uses to host metrics and graphs (metrics.torproject.org). Tor team discovered the attack in [...]

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PaperBus – New & Free Ad-Based Proxy Tool

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 21, 2010

Update 5/16/2011: PaperBus is no longer available. Are you looking for excellent proxies? Here is what I recommend: Anonymous Proxies. This is really a fresh, newly born, hide ip tool that I’m glad to present here, at How-to-hide-ip.info. PaperBus was launched today (21st of January) and hopes to become a serious contender to Hotspot Shield, Ultrasurf, Tor, NotMyIP and [...]

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Microsoft Will Delete IP Addresses Of Bing Users After 6 Months

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 20, 2010

Microsoft has announced that it would reduce the users data retention time on its Bing search engine from 18 months to 6 months. With the new policy in place, the IP address of the users will be deleted completely after 6 months, thereby offering increased user privacy protection. However, all other processes will remain the same, for the [...]

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Ipredator.se Finally Released For Everyone

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 19, 2010

Ipredator, that was in a beta phase for about 6 month and available to selected testers, is now open for everyone. The VPN service was launched last summer by The Pirate Bay’s team in response to the introduction of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) legislation which empowers copyright holders get personal details of file-sharing users from ISP’s. The [...]

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