Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Anonymous Surfing: How to use a free proxy

Would it be nice to surf anonymously on the web, so that no one can trace you again? How wonderful it'd be. And now it's possible. Using free proxies, you can surf anonymously through the web and never get caught. And it just takes a couple of minutes to set it up. Here is how it's done:

1. Go to a website that provides free proxies. There are many of them. A few good ones

  • www.proxy4free.com
  • www.stayinvisible.com
  • www.freeproxy.ru/en/free_proxy/cgi-proxy.htm
  • www.proxyblind.org
You can find many, many more on google.

Lets use http://www.proxy4free.com

2. So go there.

3. Now click on the link that says "proxy list".

4. Search for one for your country. For India, proxies for India, Pakistan, and sometimes even China work.

5. Note the port: 80, or 8080 or whatever it is.

6. Now open your browser.

  • If you use firefox:
  1. Click on the Tools menu->Options->Advanced->Network(Tab)->Settings.
  2. Click on the Radio button for "Manual Proxy Configuration"
  3. Enter your proxy(whatever it is) in the box. It should be something like 59.xx.xxx.xx, or something simlar
  4. Enter the port(80 or 8080 or whatever it is).
  5. Click Ok
  • If you use Internet explorer
  1. Read this carefully. Internet explorer sucks. It has absolutely no protection against spyware, malware, and all sorts of atrocious-ware.(=p)
  2. So dont use it(except for checking you BSNL account usage(but you can install a firefox add-on to do that from Firefox too(more about this later)))
  3. Download it from the link on the right ===> or from a friend or from someones else's affliate link. I dont care, as long as you get it. There are many reasons why you should get firefox, and I'm gonna write a post about it soon.
So now that you are on a proxy, "piracy is your birthright(sic)". Enjoy your new found anonymity.

PS: You can use a proxy with uTorrent too to make your P2P downloads anonymous too, but no one cares about that, so as long as you have a HTTP proxy, I dont think you should need anything else(except if you are a l33t, but then you wouldn't have been reading this post.)