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When VPN and Proxies Won’t Protect You from SOPA

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This is an article that is hard to write, especially for someone who’s been advising the use of VPN and proxies to anonymize their internet connection. It always hurts when what you’ve been preaching can’t just be the right answer … But anyway, you can’t have a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem, can’t you? But [...]

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70% of Users Are Using a VPN or a Proxy Service (or are Planning to Do So)

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15% of US adults file-sharers are hiding their IP addresses, thereby increasing the demand for VPN and proxy solutions. This is the result of a phone interview that “The American Assembly” recently published. On the other hand, the once called “The Pirate Bay” polled its users about their use of a hide-ip service, and it [...]

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Free Internet For Your Mobile Phone via Opera Mini Handler: How Safe Is It?

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If you are one of those geeks who are seeking ways to get free internet access for your mobile phone (who doesn’t like free internet?), I’m sure you already stumbled into the Opera mini handler trick. Haven’t heard about it yet? That’s fine. The goal of How-to-hide-ip.info isn’t to show you how to do it [...]

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When Not to Use a Free Proxy?

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So as to circumvent some internet limitations, an internet user usual go through proxies. In fact, proxies are some servers that act like brokers/gateways between your computer and the internet. It provides interesting features in the way that it can “encapsulate/rewrite” your internet requests , so that the destination webserver thinks that it is originating [...]

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Proxy Deanonymization – What Does It Mean

If you have ever used a web proxy and thought that you are completely safe, then think again. Some common web proxies that claim to provide anonymity are far from offering anonymous surfing. A website called “IP check” can be used to check how secure you are even when connected via a web proxy server. [...]

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New Free Proxy From CyberGhost

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From time to time, proxy and VPN providers are pitching us so as to get featured on our blog. Instead of jumping into their offer without even trying it, we take the time to do a simple review of the service, report it on our blog, leave our comments then leave it to our readers [...]

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Simplified View of Internet Censorship – Part II

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On the first  part of this serie of articles with regard to censorship on the internet, we addressed how limitation can be done on your computer and at the corporate or ISP level. Let’s see on this second part how this censorship can be done at the country-level side. We all have heard countries who [...]

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My Adventure to Accessing Spotify via a VPN service

If you are a bit connected to social media (even if you don’t), I’m sure you’ve heard about Spotify – this online music streaming service that is only available for users in Finland, France, Norway, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the US (at least by the time of this writing). If you’re not in [...]

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Anonymous Proxy – You Get What You Pay For

Those who want to enjoy private browsing or need to cover their tracks on the Internet would more than likely consider visiting one of the numerous sites that are advertising free anonymous proxies.   Notice the keyword here:  FREE. Anyone knowledgeable about the Internet will know that it takes money to run a proxy server. So, [...]

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Guide To Finding And Configuring a Proxy For Google Chrome

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For those who  use Google chrome as their browser, What kind of  proxies do you need to search for? If you are a university user, chances are that the university IT folks would have given you the parameters to use. Just wanted to mention that some website provide you with a “web-based proxy”. How does [...]

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