When you open the music section over at the video hosting site YouTube you get a list of popular music videos that are currently hosted on the site. You can play individual videos or all of them at once, and while that works nicely in most countries, you may live or be in one that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

If you are browsing the Internet at work, chance is that you cannot visit some websites. The IT department may have blocked access to sites that may distract you from work related tasks. This may be Facebook and Twitter, web proxy sites to prevent you from circumventing the block, entertainment sites like YouTube and adult [...]

Categories: Online Services

Having a free anonymous proxy at hand can be very helpful in certain situations. Have you ever visited a website or service where access to content was rejected because of the country you were accessing those contents from? A proxy could help you overcome those IP checks as it allows you to connect to the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I remove broken links regularly here on Ghacks. Today I stumbled upon a review of a proxy extension for Google chrome. The extension had been discontinued, and I made the decision to try and find a suitable alternative for that extension. The quest for the best available proxy extension for Google Chrome had started. I [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

It can sometimes be very handy to access a website or service through a proxy server. Why? It can be that the service is limited access to users from a specific country, or that a website that you want to access is banned or blocked in a country or computer network. Proxies are often the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

If you work with anonymous web proxies you will encounter proxies that are not working at that time. That is a big problem if a huge amount of proxies are needed on a regular basis. It is possible to check them all manually which would however take a long time. Proxy Checkers on the other [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A problem with most proxy servers and web proxies is that many tend to stop working after a while. The majority of web proxy servers are rather short lived with only a minority of popular ones that make it past the first six months of their existence. There are many reasons for this with the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A proxy server can be used for a number of things. People can use it to overcome censorship in their country, to access contents they could otherwise not access or to remain anonymous while performing research on the Internet. Proxy servers to provide a level of anonymity and privacy that makes them a good choice [...]

Categories: Security

Web browser users can normally enable or disable web proxy servers in their browsers. There is usually no way to configure a different web proxy server based on the visited website or an option to switch between web proxy use and no proxy use easily. Auto Proxy is a new experimental Firefox add-on that tries [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox