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Select a country for your proxy

Martin Brinkmann — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:53:15 +0000

Finally a innovative proxy website. Web Proxies are all alike, mostly. They use the same four of five proxy scripts that are available, may have a different design and tend to disappear after 1-12 months. Worldproxy added an interesting new feature to it’s proxy: Country selection. Many multimedia services, like streaming Internet radio or video, are limited to users of a specific country by the service provider and proxies are one of the ways to beat the protection to be able to view the contents of the website from a country that is normally not allowed to view them.

Worldproxy (via Technospot) makes use of that by offering its visitors a country based proxy map. Currently only three countries are available: United States, Canada and Great Britain. The United States proxy is currently not working, the other two are working fine and it is probably just a glitch that the US proxy is not working right now.

Proxy selection by country is unfortunately the only new aspect of that proxy website. It does come with a toolbar that can be used to quickly switch between different country proxies but I normally do not install toolbars because they tend to take away screen space.

Users can suggest new countries which means that it is likely that other countries will be added to the map in future updates. The proxy obviously can be used for different things as well. It is for instance possible to check ads that are running on your website when a visitor of a certain country visits it.

Proxy Sites

Martin Brinkmann — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:40:13 +0000

I know that I have not been updating the proxy list for a while and I promise to do it in the near future. For now, I post a list of new and relatively unknown proxy sites that should work for most people. If they are not working I suggest you setup a proxy on your own at a free domain hosting service that allows php or cgi. You should probably rename the files accordingly because it could be that the proxy scripts per se have been banned and not only the domains / ips that host the scripts.

An extensive list of web proxies can be found by following the link to my latest post about web proxies.

The proxy sites are all not working anymore. This is often the case with proxy sites as most tend to come and go rather quickly. There are only a few popular services that manage to stay on top of the game over the years.

Some of those proxy sites include the following services:

Proxify – A free web proxy based on CGI Proxy. It supports SSL sites, can remove cookies, scripts and ads.

Hide My Ass – Another popular and long standing proxy service. It can be used for anonymous surfing and other activities. It displays ads on the proxified pages.

Those two proxy sites are just two examples. You can also head over to proxy list sites that offer up to date proxy site listings. Here are again two examples of general proxy sites that link to hundreds of existing web proxies.

The first site is proxy.org, a long standing web proxy directory. It lists at the time of writing more than two thousand web proxies conveniently stored in a web form on the main page.

The other site that you can use for regularly updated proxy lists is proxysites.net which also offers a nice listing of free proxy sites.

Highly configurable online proxy

Martin Brinkmann — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:21:30 +0000

Lets start with a quick link in the morning. The online proxy Poxy can be configured in many ways, you can chose to accept cookies, enable javascript, show images and have a small form above the website that you want to surf anonymously with poxys configuration available.

The great advantage of Poxy is that the site itself has no ads, no popups and all those other nasty stuff that most online proxies seem to have these days.

Check out their site and enjoy anonymous browsing.