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Hide IP & VPN FAQs

How to choose a hide IP tool (V) – Subscription or Permanent license

By HideIP Admin | Published: April 12, 2009

This is the fifth article of the series “How to choose a hide IP tool“. In the first post I have explained that you can choose between free and paid tools (How to choose a hide IP tool (I) – Free or paid?). If you decide to purchase a product you always have to try before you buy (How to choose a [...]

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How Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) Work

By HideIP Admin | Published: March 16, 2009

There was a lot of talking lately about Hotspot Shield, a free VPN service. The tool is ideal for watching Hulu, ABC, NBC, Fox or other restricted video streaming sites for visitors outside US. As I have received a lot of questions regarding VPNs, I have gathered info from several sources that explain what VPNs are [...]

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How to find the IP address of the email sender in Yahoo! Mail

By HideIP Admin | Published: July 9, 2008

Here is a quick guide on how to find the IP address of an email sender in Yahoo! Mail. This is useful if someone is harassing you via email, flooding your inbox with junk mail or any other reason you may have to find the location of the email sender. After you find out the IP [...]

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How Do I Hide My IP Address Using Opera?

By HideIP Admin | Published: June 20, 2008

If you are using Opera you should know there are several ways to hide your IP address: 1. Web proxies This is the simplest way to hide your IP for any browser you use (including Opera). A web proxy is basically a site that works as an intermediate between you and the site you want [...]

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What Is My IP Address?

By HideIP Admin | Published: June 9, 2008

If want to find out how you are seen on the web you should check our newly created page: What Is My IP Address?. You can see the IP address you are using and some location information like City, Country and Country code. Thi can be your real location info or some fake one. If [...]

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What Is Scroogle?

By HideIP Admin | Published: June 8, 2008

Scroogle is Google search proxy which prevents the searcher’s data being stored by Google. Scroogle also gives users the option of having all comunication between their computer and the search page be SSL encripted. The source code of this service was released in 2005 that will disguise your internet address when you run a Google [...]

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What is a CGIProxy?

By HideIP Admin | Published: March 30, 2008

Internet proxy websites are sites that you can use to conceal your identity on the Internet or just to be able to access Internet websites that have been restricted for you to use. There are two widely used variants of proxy, the PHProxy and the CGIProxy. They are both used for the same general reason, [...]

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What is a PHProxy?

By HideIP Admin | Published: March 26, 2008

The Internet should be freely accessible to everyone, no matter where and when, this is one of the main ideas of it, and this is why it works so great. There are some limitations that are put upon us by governments, CEO’s or other “important” people that would like to stop us to view specific [...]

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My IP Address Is Blacklisted. What To Do?

By HideIP Admin | Published: March 20, 2008

If you keep receiving emails that you would like to send back to your inbox, then there is a great chance that your IP is really blacklisted. That means, that you are not able to send any emails, until your IP gets deleted from the list. There are different ways how to get your IP [...]

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How Spammers Obscure Their Address

By HideIP Admin | Published: March 17, 2008

Spammers are notorious for being annoying, obnoxious, and can be an absolute destructive force hidden behind the cloak the protection of a keyboard, monitor and computer gives them. Despite how absolutely frustrating getting spam emails and spam pop-ups can be, you have to hand it to the spammer in the mask. They are usually technological [...]

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