Category Archives: Proxy Sites

Video: Hide Your IP Address with Proxies

I have posted several times on this blog about proxies. They are simple to setup and most of the time effective. Their problem is the speed and the security provided. The fact that you don’t know who is behind the proxy you use should worry you a little bit. So, my advice is to use [...]
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5 Google Chrome Extensions for Anonymous Browsing

As you probably know already, Google Chrome now accepts extensions. There are nowhere near as many extensions available for Google’s Chrome browser as there are for Firefox, but many of them already duplicate the better Firefox add-ons. Of course, the extensions that can be used for anonymous browsing are not an exception and there are already some available. The [...]
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Video: Unblocking Restricted Websites Explained

Are you interested in watching Hulu outside the US? Or maybe BBC in the US? Here is a video from Tekzilla that nicely explains how you can achieve this by using proxy server. As Roger Chang emphasizes in the video, VPN services are another good solution to unblock restricted websites. Take Hotspot Shield for example. It provides US IP [...]
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How to Setup Squid on Windows and Linux

If you want to setup your own proxy on your home computer you are able to do it by using Squid. Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Why would you want to use Squid? If you travel [...]
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The Best 5 Web Proxy Sites To Hide Your IP Address

Web proxies are clearly not the best option when it comes to hiding your IP address, but when no other options are available they are good enough. This is the case when you are at school or at work and you don’t have the rights to install any hide ip tool (like IP Hider, Hide-My-IP, Hide The IP, [...]
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HideMyAss – Free Proxy, Anonymous Email and VPN Service

Hide My Ass! helps hundreds of thousands of people daily by protecting their privacy and identity online. They offer a range of useful services, from free web proxy enabling you to surf the web anonymously to free file hosting with advanced privacy features. Here are the 3 most useful services HideMyAss offer: Free Web Proxy HideMyAss free proxy can be used to surf [...]
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3 Sites To Find Good Web Proxies

Web proxies are probably the simplest way to hide your IP address. Just enter the url of the site you want to visit anonymously in the text box of the web proxy and press the Submit/Go button. Of course, there are downsides of this hide ip approach, but the idea is that it’s a solution [...]
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Proxy Servers: Good or/and Evil?

Proxy servers are hot news these days due to the election process in Iran and also due to the legal case where Microsoft is suing against three people that were defrauding Internet advertisers by using automated programs mimic users clickstreams. David Storn, an expert on Internet and networking technologies who was the former editor-in-chief at Network Computing, [...]
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Video: How to use a web proxy

Even though it refers to a certain proxy, the following video is a good tutorial for those that know little about web proxies. It shows how proxies work and how to use them (it may be obvious to many, but not to all).
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Web proxy from Athens, Greece

Web proxies from Greece are quite rare. I have started my search for Greek proxies on Hide-IP-Proxy.info, with no success. The only Greek proxy I could find was the one offered by Change IP Country (cIPC). You only need to select Greece, enter the URL you want to visit and press GO.
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