Anyone using Proxies?

[Big JP]

Just wondered if anyone has any good proxy services to recommend (free/paid) I noticed there are quite alot of free web based service providers, but how can you be sure they are doing the job?

[Rukshan]

Usually I find them from Google, because everyday a lot of proxies are adding to Internet

[The Copy Nazi]

Originally Posted by Big JP

Just wondered if anyone has any good proxy services to recommend (free/paid) I noticed there are quite alot of free web based service providers, but how can you be sure they are doing the job?

You can't. And some of them are really slow and open to hackers. I had my gmail a/c hacked whilst using Tor - the open source proxy server. The villains got into my Adwords a/c and set up a $2k daily spend campaign. Ran up $500 or something before both Google and I spotted it. Google were going to take forever to refund the cash so I opted to exchange the stolen amount for click credit.

I've since found a bulletproof paid Proxy Server using the same technology as the U.S. Defence forces. PM me if interested 'cause I'd quite like the affiliate commission.

[Big JP]

Originally Posted by Metronicity

You can't. And some of them are really slow and open to hackers. I had my gmail a/c hacked whilst using Tor - the open source proxy server. The villains got into my Adwords a/c and set up a $2k daily spend campaign. Ran up $500 or something before both Google and I spotted it. Google were going to take forever to refund the cash so I opted to exchange the stolen amount for click credit.

I've since found a bulletproof paid Proxy Server using the same technology as the U.S. Defence forces. PM me if interested 'cause I'd quite like the $3 affiliate commission.

WOW! Thats quite a story

Yeah PM me the details, I'll check it out.

I used a free one earlier, think it was proxlicious, which claims the same "U.S Defence" technology stuff.

[affmrktng]

I have only ever used worldproxy202 and had no idea there was any risk to using proxies. Makes you think

[DavidMeade]

I used to use IP Rental. They were very good at the time, probably still are.

[The Copy Nazi]

Recently a hacker at a Black Hat Security Conference in Washington demonstrated how he got past SSL (Secure Sockets Layer used for credit card transactions etc) on Tor and got into people’s accounts.
He got 254 passwords from Tor users in 24 hours.

To prove his point, he ran SSLstrip on a server hosting a Tor anonymous browsing network. During a 24-hour period, he harvested 254 passwords from users visiting sites including Yahoo, Gmail, Ticketmaster, PayPal, and LinkedIn. The users were fooled even though SSLstrip wasn’t using the proxy feature that tricks them into believing they were at a secure site. Sadly, the Tor users entered passwords even though the addresses in their address bars didn’t display the crucial “https.”

From a post on my blog here - Free Proxy Server | Free Proxy Server Info

[Sy Heart]

I don't use proxies since they slow down my Internet Connection. But if you want a good proxy, as James said, use Packetflip.

Sillian Young Heart

[Mohammad Afaq]

I don't use proxies anymore but last year I used em to get on facebook at school

This year they have blocked all proxies so I am in search of a new one that hasn't yet been blocked.

[Big JP]

Originally Posted by mohammad111

I don't use proxies anymore but last year I used em to get on facebook at school

This year they have blocked all proxies so I am in search of a new one that hasn't yet been blocked.

What do you mean they have blocked the proxies? Your school has blocked the proxy site's address's?

[Big JP]

Am I rite in SAYING (defenitely not doing!) that if you clicked on your own adsense ads while using a proxy, google would not know any different???

I ask just to get an idea of how powerful, and truely invisible they make you.

[Mohammad Afaq]

Originally Posted by Big JP

What do you mean they have blocked the proxies? Your school has blocked the proxy site's address's?

Wherever you go to a proxy website on the school internet you get a message that says something like:

Proxy Avoidance
This is a proxy related website and it falls under the Jefferson Parish blacklisted sites category.

[davidomni]

This is by far the best proxi service I have used:

WorldProxy202 - Proxies from around the world at your fingertips.

Its actually really awesome, you know it works because (for example) with CPA offers that are only in the states, it works well, also I use for craigslist posting..

Hope this helps...

Cheers

[mr2020]

Thanks for the Proxy 202.

This is EXACTLY what I have been looking for.

I downloaded tor, and it was SLOW.

Now to have some fun!

20/20

[Mohammad Afaq]

So that means if you use proxies for downloading torrents then you can't be tracked?

If that's true then I am downloading some torrents for sure

[InternetMarketingIQ]

If you have to use a proxy to do what your are doing... then you really have to question what you are doing.

[Raydal]

Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ

If you have to use a proxy to do what your are doing... then you really have to question what you are doing.

Not necessarily so. There are many legitimate uses of proxies.
Sometimes I use proxies to see how others view/see my site.

Your website may be cached in your browser and you don't realize
it until you use a proxy to look at the site. And that's just one
example.

-Ray Edwards

[Alan Mc Donald]

i have tried ALOT of proxy services

Cloakfish.com - Anonymous Web Surfing provide an incredible service and bullet proof online privacy

[techdiva]

When I worked for a company that was on the "dark side of the force" of internet marketing we used Privacy View out of FLA. Privacy View Proxy, the program auto rotates from one of their private servers to another every 30 minutes.

Worked great, nice folks to work with and never had any "leakage" like our old proxy service did. And trust me, the guy I worked for had his business IP address banned all around the web, so if our proxy failed we knew about instantly.

Chancer