Surf Anonymously

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Can someone suggest/recommend the best Freeware (or Shareware/Commercial
Software) that allows me to surf anonymously? I'm not up for wasting my
time & money buying/trying different products.

I'm sick & tired of SPAM. It seems that I'll search the web for "Chinese
Recipes" and end up clicking on a link that leads me to some oriental porn
site instead. Then I notice an increase in porn-related spam. I could
just apply an email filter to filter spam, but I'd rather not have these
website identify me at all.

Thanks!

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Kendall F. Stratton III
Fort Fairfield, Maine USA
k3@(86_THE_SPAM)maine.rr.com
http://home.maine.rr.com/k3

"Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!"
 
Susan Bugher said:
There are sites that let you do that.

Anonymous Browsing Quick-Start Page
http://www.space.net.au/~thomas/quickbrowse.html

PurePrivacy
http://www.pureprivacy.com/
Anonymous web browsing via a proxy server

Susan
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Thank you Susan, but I wonder if these websites are doing any tracking
themselves? I'd rather install some application locally.

I'm considering "Ghost Surf" (http://www.tenebril.com/), but I'm in the
process of finding out more about it and also finding similar products that
might be better (and cheaper).

--
Kendall F. Stratton III
Fort Fairfield, Maine USA
k3@(86_THE_SPAM)maine.rr.com
http://home.maine.rr.com/k3

"Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!"
 
Can someone suggest/recommend the best Freeware (or Shareware/Commercial
Software) that allows me to surf anonymously? I'm not up for wasting my
time & money buying/trying different products.

I'm sick & tired of SPAM. It seems that I'll search the web for "Chinese
Recipes" and end up clicking on a link that leads me to some oriental porn
site instead. Then I notice an increase in porn-related spam. I could
just apply an email filter to filter spam, but I'd rather not have these
website identify me at all.

Thanks!

--
Kendall F. Stratton III
Fort Fairfield, Maine USA
k3@(86_THE_SPAM)maine.rr.com
http://home.maine.rr.com/k3

"Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!"
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It sounds like you might actually be better off using Proxomitron - it can block a lot of those
types of sites & would probably give you more security than just browsing via an anonymous proxy
(that won't stop scripts, pop-ups etc from downloading). Proxomitron can also stop cookies,
advertisements and lots of other nasties.

It's free - have a look at http://www.proxomitron.info/ &
http://www.proxomitron.info/resources/index.html (list of forums/help pages)
 
Can someone suggest/recommend the best Freeware (or Shareware/Commercial
Software) that allows me to surf anonymously? I'm not up for wasting my
time & money buying/trying different products.
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You have come to the wrong place then. :-)
I'm sick & tired of SPAM.
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SPAM has nothing to do with surfing.
It seems that I'll search the web for "Chinese
Recipes" and end up clicking on a link that leads me to some oriental porn
site instead. Then I notice an increase in porn-related spam.
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ONly if you give them your email address.
 
K3 said:
Can someone suggest/recommend the best Freeware (or Shareware/Commercial
Software) that allows me to surf anonymously? I'm not up for wasting my
time & money buying/trying different products.

I'm sick & tired of SPAM. It seems that I'll search the web for "Chinese
Recipes" and end up clicking on a link that leads me to some oriental porn
site instead. Then I notice an increase in porn-related spam. I could
just apply an email filter to filter spam, but I'd rather not have these
website identify me at all.

Thanks!
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I've tried "free" services, but they are slow, flash ads at you, are
questionable if they track you or not. And the "free" proxy servers out
there are usually either government proxies (that track), business proxies
(that track), or worse the proxy is bolted onto a worm sending goodies like
your username and password for your favorite websites to the guy who
deployed the worm.

I decided that if I wanted reliable anonymous service, that I should just
step up and pay for it. To that end, I've subscribed 2 years in a row to:
http://anonymizer.com/tns/ which is $99/year for SSH tunneling with private
e-mail, web browsing, instant messaging, and news group posting/reading.

I'm thinking about trying another service next year like these:

http://privacy.li/privacy-tunnel.htm <-- 100 Euro ~ $120.52/year
http://jtan.com/proshell/ <-- $99/year
http://www.metropipe.net/ <-- $99.95/year
http://www.cotse.net/services.html <-- $5.95/month

The only service that includes usenet access is anonymizer's TNS. Though
their servers (and all the others except privacy.li's are in the USA which
poses a slight security/privacy issue. Personally, if the government has a
warrant, I'd have no problem with anonymizer giving logs over since I don't
do anything illegal anyways.

Come next year, I'm leaning on renewing with Jtan since it comes with a
fully enabled UNIX shell account, 1-GB of web storage, and even voice mail!

Sometimes free costs too much.

Karen
http://scootgirl.com/
 
K3 said:
Can someone suggest/recommend the best Freeware (or Shareware/Commercial
Software) that allows me to surf anonymously? I'm not up for wasting my
time & money buying/trying different products.

I'm sick & tired of SPAM. It seems that I'll search the web for "Chinese
Recipes" and end up clicking on a link that leads me to some oriental porn
site instead. Then I notice an increase in porn-related spam. I could
just apply an email filter to filter spam, but I'd rather not have these
website identify me at all.

Thanks!
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If I was the F.B.I. I would establish 3 or 4 websites guaranteeing
absolute privacy. I would get the word out to all the right websites
including paying to take my advertisements and build up a good
business. These including drug websites and perverts. Then I would sit
back and laugh as I slowly caught all the fools and locked them up for
a long time. Don't be surprised if they don't do it now. It's too big
a chance to let slip by. You can count on the war on terror doing this
and nobody can offer absolute provacy because Homeland Security won't
allow it!
 
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