gHacks technology news » proxy sites http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:18:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Select a country for your proxy http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/20/select-a-country-for-your-proxy/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/20/select-a-country-for-your-proxy/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 07:53:15 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4203 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.

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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.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/20/select-a-country-for-your-proxy/feed/ 7 Highly configurable online proxy http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/02/highly-configurable-online-proxy/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/02/highly-configurable-online-proxy/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:21:30 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=92 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.

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