Surf the Web Anonymously
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Hans Moses
By Hans Moses
Published on Friday 5th 2008
In case you are trying to surf a website, such as orkut, facebook,
myspace, hotmail or yahoo mail from work desk or school then you'll
often find that it is blocked by the authorities. Or one could even
want to go a site without leaving any kind of trace whatsoever. The
most ideal way to do the same is using a web proxy.
In case you are trying to surf a website, such as orkut, facebook, myspace, hotmail or yahoo mail from work desk or school then you'll often find that it is blocked by the authorities. Or one could even want to go a site without leaving any kind of trace whatsoever. The most ideal way to do the same is using a web proxy.
One can define a proxy as another computer that can act as a mask on your computer, in turn your, movements when it is connected to the Web. It acts as a private gateway to any kind of blocked site since the site that one is surfing will be hidden by the proxy, which should be essentially unblocked. For instance, if you would access websites through a web proxy based in London then each and every other computer in the world would get the information that you are from London.
One should be aware that each and every computer accessing the Internet has an individual address.
The same applies for you and therefore, if so wanted one can trace you from your computer address. This essentially means that all it takes is a little amount of searching and anyone can easily find out your identity based on the sites that you are looking at. You should understand that without any proxy your computer will be absolutely unprotected while surfing the Web.
This would leave you wide open to all kinds of scams, spam advertising or even dangerous viruses. One has to understand that even if the site you are interested in browsing is not blocked, the computer specialists at your school or work can easily figure out the different sites that you hve been browsing.
There exist a number of free web proxy sites and you can easily use any one of them. However, the one main problem is that many of these popular proxies are also blocked by schools and companies. But finding a unblocked proxy site isn't that tough.
All you have to do is search for a proxy sites list at various Search Engines and get hold of an unblocked proxy site given in these lists. Once you find an unblocked proxy site, all you have to do is simply go to the proxy site and enter the URL you want to. Once you click 'go', you can surf the web as much as you want absolutely undetected by anyone. You'll be anonymous to the whole outside world.
One can define a proxy as another computer that can act as a mask on your computer, in turn your, movements when it is connected to the Web. It acts as a private gateway to any kind of blocked site since the site that one is surfing will be hidden by the proxy, which should be essentially unblocked. For instance, if you would access websites through a web proxy based in London then each and every other computer in the world would get the information that you are from London.
One should be aware that each and every computer accessing the Internet has an individual address.
The same applies for you and therefore, if so wanted one can trace you from your computer address. This essentially means that all it takes is a little amount of searching and anyone can easily find out your identity based on the sites that you are looking at. You should understand that without any proxy your computer will be absolutely unprotected while surfing the Web.
This would leave you wide open to all kinds of scams, spam advertising or even dangerous viruses. One has to understand that even if the site you are interested in browsing is not blocked, the computer specialists at your school or work can easily figure out the different sites that you hve been browsing.
There exist a number of free web proxy sites and you can easily use any one of them. However, the one main problem is that many of these popular proxies are also blocked by schools and companies. But finding a unblocked proxy site isn't that tough.
All you have to do is search for a proxy sites list at various Search Engines and get hold of an unblocked proxy site given in these lists. Once you find an unblocked proxy site, all you have to do is simply go to the proxy site and enter the URL you want to. Once you click 'go', you can surf the web as much as you want absolutely undetected by anyone. You'll be anonymous to the whole outside world.