Having a friend working as a network administrator at a high school, I can tell you that most of these network admins are overworked with nitty gritty paperwork and simply will not have the time to actively play the cat and mouse game with proxy websites. Only a very few minority will actually subscribe to our proxy newsletters from yahoo and google groups, search in yahoo answers, track the proxy listings for new free web proxies to be blacklisted and added to their school content blocks. Most netwok admins will completely rely on the school paid for content filtering systems such as websense, bluecoat, etc. Yes, there are some cases of them signing up in our proxy mailing lists every now and then. How do I know its them? Some used their work email accounts to sign up, without bothering for any stealth which once again highlighted their lack of time and dedication to fighting against bypass proxies. Some actually joined and then email us, the owners of the proxy newsletters to lecture us on the dangers of enabling school students uncensored internet access and to demand that we stop the proxy newsletter and our proxy business immediately. My proxy partner also told me about reading on a network admin's blog where he share self written scripts to analyze Internet access log files in his school and search for potential proxy sites that bypass school filters. Seriously, I do applaud their efforts and as long as there are internet filters, we will have business for providing web bypass services.
Many people are using free proxy sites to anonymously browse the net without leaving traces at the destination websites as well as at their network filters. They have learned that all the sites they visit during school and office hours are either being logged at the office firewalls or are already being blocked from direct access. Further persistent attempts to visit these blocked websites directly are going to raise a flag and they may risk losing their jobs for such unauthorized web surfing activities. At the same time, they are going to get some serious attention and questioning by the IT department if their work computers keep getting infected with the latest computer virus and spyware. We all know where such malware can be frequently found - definitely not on legitimate sites such as wikipedia and yahoo. Once you get the IT department on your trail, they can dig out your entire internet surfing history, mostly filled with exotic pictures and exciting videos totally unrelated to your work scope. Rather than risk their computers or jobs for viewing some blocked sites while being bored at work, they have learnt to use free anonymous web proxy sites to surf anonymously without exposing their real web destinations to the office internet content filters and to bypass blocked sites. Some people are still worried as to whether using proxy websites for unblocking websites are really legal or not. Basically, there is really nothing illegal about using a proxy server for surfing websites legitimately. It is an acceptable method for protecting your computer from hackers, computer viruses, spyware etc that are common on the web. If what you are doing online without using a proxy website is legal, doing so via a proxy does not change it legally. If you are only trying to unblock and hide your access to facebook during the lunch hour, you do not have to worry about infringing the law. However, infringement of company policies are a different issue. The only thing that matters is whether you are caught or not. As a whole, using anonymous web proxies is legal but proxies are also frequently used by shady people to conduct illegal online activities because proxies can help to hide their tracks and IP identities. It is this context where anonymous proxies can appear to be a gray subject - they are legal but can be easily used for illegal activities, it really depend on what your intent is about. However, if you think that you can abuse the free open proxy for blatant illegal activities, you will most likely be caught up and subjected to criminal proceedings based on what you have done through the proxy server.
It is perfectly legal to manage free proxy websites nowadays, at least in the US. Although you may be contacted by law enforcement to assist their investigations, all you need to do is comply politely with their requests and you will be fine. These officers know the nature and purposes of proxy websites so they know that any questionable internet activities are probably attributable to the vast number of proxy users and not directly due to the proxy webmasters. Just give them your server logs to help them track down the person they are after.
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Free Anonymous Proxy Users
The next type of proxy users are the group of people that do not want the sites they visit to know who they are. For example, I feel horny and wanted to look at some naughty pictures and videos. But I am scared and have heard stories of people getting blackmailed over their records of surfing naughty websites. So I decided to surf using an anonymous internet proxy to hide my real identity and IP address. I do not have any web filters, parental control software etc to worry about. I just need a proxy server, preferably free, that is fast working and does not have problems loading the pages, pictures and videos I wanna look at. The web proxy script it is using must provide complete web anonymity and hide my IP address. It has to be fast and not take several minutes to load a page that is normal done within seconds without a proxy. That means once I find a anonymous web proxy that meets all my requirements, I will bookmark it and can even type in the proxy url directly into my firefox if the domain name is catchy enough. After using for this free anonymous web proxy for some time, I learn where the advertisement banners and links are located at and can automatically avoid looking and clicking on these. I can become very single minded and zoom straight to the proxy url bar, enter the website I wanna visit and off I go. That means the owner of that free anonymous web server will be paying bandwidth for me, a free sponger without gaining revenue in return. Although I faithful come back and visit every night, this faithfulness translates to very poor earnings for the proxy webmaster. The traffic statistics look good, consistently high volume without doing much active proxy promotion and there is no need to insanely create tens of proxies every day as mentioned in the first paragraph of this post. To combat banner blindness and revive the happy ad clicking activities of your loyal visitors, such evergreen anonymous proxy site owners may need to change the web proxy template and design. Move the ad blocks and proxy url bar around, boldly switch their locations, change the color themes etc. After every change, observe if your earnings go up. When the number of ad clicks start going down, it may be time for another shakeup. Note that you may piss off some loyal anonymous web proxy users by doing so. See if your number of website visitors has indeed went down and gauge carefully whether it is worth it. For such long running anonymous web proxies, it is worthwhile trying to rank high in the search engine results for keywords such as “free proxy”, “surf anonymously” and other anonymous related keywords etc. Do not attempt to rank for keywords that are likely used by the students and office workers trying to bypass filters. Your targeted audience wants web anonymity and not bypassing web filters. It will be good to have anonymity related keywords in your domain name, but anonymous is quite a long and easily misspelled word, so it is really your call. You can also use the word proxy in your domain name, no problems as long as you are not trying to go after both types of audiences with a single free proxy website. Not advisable to do so explicitly anyway. By the way, if you are really offering your surf anonymously proxy services for free, do not be afraid to use the word free in your domain name either. Free always work great!
Start Proxy Business For Beginners
Some people asked if it is still worthwhile getting into the anonymous proxy websits business today? I say it depends on how much you can invest versus how high you wanted to take this proxy business to. When I say invest, I mean your time, skills, relationships and money. The more you have, the easier for you to start in the proxy business, or any other forms of money making ventures online. Even if you have nothing, no programming skills, no web design skills, no money to spare, no contacts etc, it is still easier to start making some money with working proxies compared to other stuff like affiliate marketing or niche blogging. The money for proxies come pretty fast, but is pretty limited to may be $5 for every 1000 real, unique visitors you can get to come to your bypass websense filter proxy. The golden earning period for internet proxy business is over. My mentor told me during 2005, you can easily get 1 to 2 million page views per month for every proxy you created. The pay per click for adsense and pay per view for other advertising companies were also much higher compared to what we have today for proxy websites. Anyway, there is no use mesmerizing about the past because we are neither aware nor equipped to take advantage of those opportunities anyway. If you start in the proxy business today, you will eventually learn a bit of wed design and coding, a bit of search engine optimization, a bit of internet promotion and marketing, a lot on online web monetization, a lot of contacts in the business if you bothered to participate in the community and other intangible benefits.
There is an untold big dream for internet proxy owners who are in for long term profits and running of proxy websites that serious provide a good service for web blocking visitors and websites that bypass school internet proxy. Unlike the opportunistic proxy creators that try to quickly create, promote and sell off web proxies, the long term public anonymous proxy owners wanted every visitor that has come to their proxies to have a pleasant anonymous web surfing experience and to come back again and again. This is the so-called dream of running proxies on auto-pilot forever with minimal involvement. Easy passive profits huh? Just remember to pay the hosting bills every month and bank in the cheques from google adsense every month in return. There is no need to add fresh content to the proxy website unlike those slaving bloggers that are thinking like mad for new topics to write about. Unfortunately, this plan is pretty flawed nowadays. Yes, you only need minimal content pages for web proxies. However, if you want to carry on serving the same visitors, you need to keep up with changes made on the sites frequently accessed by your visitors. That means no small amount of time must be spent on getting feedback from your anonymous web visitors as well as interacting with other web proxy owners in the community, looking for new patches for the proxy script in order to unblock websites with funky javascript interfaces or anti proxy measures. You cannot just let the proxy run by itself without continuing paid proxy promotions such as newsletter blast, banner ads, link exchanges and constantly tracking the returns on those expenditures. If you stop these promotions, other proxy owners will jump in and try to take your market share. Look at what happen with the market share of hotmail and yahoo mail when gmail is introduced with a bang. Proxy users seldom have any loyalty to the anonymous web proxies they are using for free these days. If you must ask, yes I do not believe in that auto-pilot proxy website dream at all.
Web Proxy Hosting Considerations For Beginners
Should you buy a dedicated server the first thing you start out in this proxy business or should you go cheap and gradually grow and move things along as you proceed? When you are buying a VPS or dedicated server for running your own free websites proxy servers, you need to note the amount of RAM given on the hosting plans. Some cheap $10 VPS plans give you 128 Mb or less of RAM resources but this is not even sufficient for hosting generic websites, let alone resource hungry high traffic anonymous proxy websites. For example, you need around 60 Mb of RAM just to run the liunx operating system, and if you want a nice looking control panel such as Cpanel to manage your hosting, that will take up another 70 to 100 Mb leaving you zero memory for the proxy server scripts at all. If you cannot afford anything dedicated server plans with at least 1 Gb RAM, stick to shared proxy hosting. You can perhaps start out with a VPS with 512Mb RAM, but it is too dangerously thin on resources. Instead, you should spread your free anonymous web proxies around several cheap shared proxy hosting plans from different proxy hosting companies. Although this does slightly complicate the management of your proxy network - need to login to different Cpanel and FTP accounts, cannot easily keep all data on a single database etc, you will still want to do this because shared proxy hosting are notoriously prone to server outages. Continue at Compare Cheap Proxy Hosting.
The Three Types Of Visitors To Free Proxy Websites
Do not forget that regular visitors to free proxy websites can be classified into three types of users. Firstly, there are the college and school students and office workers that are using computers behind internet content filters. They need fresh proxies every day in order to unblock websites such as myspace, youtube, etc. These people need a lot of new proxies because when they start using a particular proxy today, their network administrator may add those proxies into the internet filter software blacklist, rendering those web proxies useless and blocked as well. After using web proxies for some time behind web filters in order to circumvent web blocking, those learned that they need to find new proxies everyday and will not bother to remember or bookmark any proxy websites, no matter how fast or how well they worked. This group of users is more likely to join proxy newsletter and emailing groups on yahoo, msn and google in order to get fresh proxies in their mailbox every day. They are also the same people that are bombarding proxy listing sites that show the latest web proxies available. It is not likely for them to use proxy top sites because these rank proxy in terms of popularity and when they are being created. They already know that established popular proxies are probably blocked by the web filters. To conclude, these visitors are unable to become loyal and regular fans of your proxy. Read on to find out how to make money from school proxy visitors.
The next type of proxy users have been around for a really really long time, before the school students came up with the idea of unblocking internet filters and websense. They have some web surfing habits that they do not want anybody to find out. Have you guessed correctly? Yes, for some reasons, they want to protect their web anonymity and do want others to find out who they are. Maybe they are doing something illegal and do not want to be traced back to their house. Or maybe these people that uses free anonymous proxies do not want the website owners to record their presences.
That’s all I remembered to share on how to make money with proxy new websites for beginners. I will try recall and write more stuff – these should still work and they are free. I am not asking for $37 or $27 or $17 or $7 for the information, but you do have to put up with my ramblings on proxy websites.
Proxy Websites and Internet Filters
Many IT departments in schools and offices invest a lot of money and manpower on firewall software, internet security and web filtering. Many popular websites and proxy websites are being blocked and cannot be accessed from computers in these schools and offices thanks to the internet filter software. These restrictions are usually placed not to protect the internal network from threats like spamware and malware, but to disallow users from surfing unrelated websites and undermine productivity. For example, almost everyone has heard about the company manager that was sacked because it is found that he spent many hours in the office surfing naughty internet sites instead of doing his work.
However, school students and company works can still easily get to blocked sites and bypass web filters for internet though free web proxy sites. Although network administrators try hard to block access to these proxies as well, many new online proxy web sites are created every day around the world. It has become a cat and mouse game - everyday, students search for freshly created internet proxies to surf Myspace, Youtube etc for school bypass while network administrators monitor the web traffic daily to detect and block these free proxy web servers used to gain unauthorized access to restricted and blocked websites.
The most popular destinations for internet proxy users are social websites such as MySpace, Facebook, or Youtube. We are get bored and have a mind block every now and then during school and office hours. That is perfectly understandable. However, these social sites are highly addictive and they can indeed waste time meant for schoolwork and company productivity. The additional costs paying for bandwidth and computer resources in order to surf these social sites can be very high.
If your work place or school has installed web filters such as WebSense or Net Nanny to block access to your favorite websites, an unblocked anonymous proxy server can act as the "middle man". You first visit such free proxy websites to test if they are blocked in the first place. Clear access? Good, the next step is to find a little address field on the site for you to enter the URL of your destination site. Sometimes, the free proxy webmasters make it a little difficult for you to find the address bar. If you can find it after spending more time than necessary, that means many others did not bother to try finding and that proxy website might just be underloaded and transfer web pages faster for you. Most free web proxy servers will bombard you with lots of popups, popunders or interstitial advertisements. You just have to bear with it, since they provide the service to you for free, they must make some pennies from these various forms of online advertising. If you do not like such distracting advertisements, you can pay for exclusive access proxy servers. They cost about $10 a month and can be a lot faster compared to the free public proxies. There are only about one person willing to pay for proxy access out of every 1000 proxy users, so you can imagine the server performance difference when you go the freebie way. Of course, there is the danger of your network administrator blocking that paid proxy right after you have paid up. Normally, these paid web proxies are not easily detected and they offer secure SSL web browsing protection. If you are worried, ask upfront for any money back guarantees before buying in. They are typically used by web surfers trying to protect their online anonymity rather than using it for accessing blocked websites. But you can try since you never know right? $10 a month is quite cheap compared to the time wasted on searching for free new proxy websites and waiting for your web pages to load on these busy public servers.
You may need to try several free public proxy websites before finding one that is unblocked by your office internet filter, work correctly with your intended destination site, fast enough and does not irritate the hell out of you by showing you all sorts of popups. Some even show above twenty one and naughty advertisements which can spell trouble for you if someone else walk pass behind you and saw a pair of curvy round meat on your computer screen. There are now sophisticated content filters being used that can automatically detect and label a website as being malware, naughty and proxy. These use the website's domain name and the html or javascript content on the web pages. For example, if the domain name contains both myspace and proxy, there is 99% chance that it is a proxy and should be blocked. There are no legit and reputable websites that have both terms in their names, and hence there is no risk of accidentally blocking an important website that is used for work or study purposes. If the domain name sounds very innocent and does not contain high alert terms such as "proxy", "unblock", "bypass" etc, the web filtering software can still check for proxy footprints within the html contents. There are very few websites other than proxies that contain buttons saying "Surf!", "Unblock" etc. The automatic blocking can also be based on the IP addresses of the proxy servers. There are some well known and large proxy hosting companies around that supports nearly 90% of all the online proxies you can find on the internet today. The IP addresses of these companies are publicly known and hence they can be added to the blacklist of web filter software. You may wonder what happens to a normal website that happens to be hosted on those IP addresses. The sad news is, small websites are deemed as not so important compared to large established ones. You will not expect the large Yahoo or Wikipedia to share an IP with a proxy, that is not possible so they do not have to worry about it. So what if a small site gets blocked by mistake, whatever little content it has, Wikipedia should have as well if not more. Thats the rationale and argument behind the use of IP blocking. Furthermore, its the webmaster's fault for hosting an ordinary website with a proxy hosting company in the first place. Weird, but its happens very often because some webmasters own both non-proxy and proxy websites.
You need to also be careful about browsing websites that require account logins when using a online proxy server. You are giving away your login details such as your login ID and password and the proxy owner can program the proxy server to record down such details and use them to access your accounts. If you have your other private information such as social security number, credit card details, home address, personal pictures on that website account, you are indirectly giving out these very personal and private information. Do you have any idea what can happen when these falls into the hands of the wrong people?
At the end of the day, you have to think whether all these troubles are really worth it or not. You know you are not allowed to visit a particular site during school and office hours when you find it blocked. Going all out to bypass internet filters in order to regain access is considered a breach of rules. Choosing to surf the web freely without proper authorization can mean getting suspension, loosing complete internet access rights or even loosing the job. Nowadays, mobile broadband is so cheap and wireless network coverage is quite complete and adequate. Just bring along the notebook to work and classes, then access whatever sites you want from your own computer, own wireless network. The monthly subscription costs nowadays are around $10 to 20 depending on which cities you are in and whether there is a price war between the telecommunication companies at the moment. If you already own a notebook or considering to buy a cheap notebook or an even cheaper netbook like the Asus EEE, then just get a mobile broadband plan from the various competing service providers and be done with free proxy websites. You will no longer encounter website filters on the wireless network you paid for.
However, school students and company works can still easily get to blocked sites and bypass web filters for internet though free web proxy sites. Although network administrators try hard to block access to these proxies as well, many new online proxy web sites are created every day around the world. It has become a cat and mouse game - everyday, students search for freshly created internet proxies to surf Myspace, Youtube etc for school bypass while network administrators monitor the web traffic daily to detect and block these free proxy web servers used to gain unauthorized access to restricted and blocked websites.
The most popular destinations for internet proxy users are social websites such as MySpace, Facebook, or Youtube. We are get bored and have a mind block every now and then during school and office hours. That is perfectly understandable. However, these social sites are highly addictive and they can indeed waste time meant for schoolwork and company productivity. The additional costs paying for bandwidth and computer resources in order to surf these social sites can be very high.
If your work place or school has installed web filters such as WebSense or Net Nanny to block access to your favorite websites, an unblocked anonymous proxy server can act as the "middle man". You first visit such free proxy websites to test if they are blocked in the first place. Clear access? Good, the next step is to find a little address field on the site for you to enter the URL of your destination site. Sometimes, the free proxy webmasters make it a little difficult for you to find the address bar. If you can find it after spending more time than necessary, that means many others did not bother to try finding and that proxy website might just be underloaded and transfer web pages faster for you. Most free web proxy servers will bombard you with lots of popups, popunders or interstitial advertisements. You just have to bear with it, since they provide the service to you for free, they must make some pennies from these various forms of online advertising. If you do not like such distracting advertisements, you can pay for exclusive access proxy servers. They cost about $10 a month and can be a lot faster compared to the free public proxies. There are only about one person willing to pay for proxy access out of every 1000 proxy users, so you can imagine the server performance difference when you go the freebie way. Of course, there is the danger of your network administrator blocking that paid proxy right after you have paid up. Normally, these paid web proxies are not easily detected and they offer secure SSL web browsing protection. If you are worried, ask upfront for any money back guarantees before buying in. They are typically used by web surfers trying to protect their online anonymity rather than using it for accessing blocked websites. But you can try since you never know right? $10 a month is quite cheap compared to the time wasted on searching for free new proxy websites and waiting for your web pages to load on these busy public servers.
You may need to try several free public proxy websites before finding one that is unblocked by your office internet filter, work correctly with your intended destination site, fast enough and does not irritate the hell out of you by showing you all sorts of popups. Some even show above twenty one and naughty advertisements which can spell trouble for you if someone else walk pass behind you and saw a pair of curvy round meat on your computer screen. There are now sophisticated content filters being used that can automatically detect and label a website as being malware, naughty and proxy. These use the website's domain name and the html or javascript content on the web pages. For example, if the domain name contains both myspace and proxy, there is 99% chance that it is a proxy and should be blocked. There are no legit and reputable websites that have both terms in their names, and hence there is no risk of accidentally blocking an important website that is used for work or study purposes. If the domain name sounds very innocent and does not contain high alert terms such as "proxy", "unblock", "bypass" etc, the web filtering software can still check for proxy footprints within the html contents. There are very few websites other than proxies that contain buttons saying "Surf!", "Unblock" etc. The automatic blocking can also be based on the IP addresses of the proxy servers. There are some well known and large proxy hosting companies around that supports nearly 90% of all the online proxies you can find on the internet today. The IP addresses of these companies are publicly known and hence they can be added to the blacklist of web filter software. You may wonder what happens to a normal website that happens to be hosted on those IP addresses. The sad news is, small websites are deemed as not so important compared to large established ones. You will not expect the large Yahoo or Wikipedia to share an IP with a proxy, that is not possible so they do not have to worry about it. So what if a small site gets blocked by mistake, whatever little content it has, Wikipedia should have as well if not more. Thats the rationale and argument behind the use of IP blocking. Furthermore, its the webmaster's fault for hosting an ordinary website with a proxy hosting company in the first place. Weird, but its happens very often because some webmasters own both non-proxy and proxy websites.
You need to also be careful about browsing websites that require account logins when using a online proxy server. You are giving away your login details such as your login ID and password and the proxy owner can program the proxy server to record down such details and use them to access your accounts. If you have your other private information such as social security number, credit card details, home address, personal pictures on that website account, you are indirectly giving out these very personal and private information. Do you have any idea what can happen when these falls into the hands of the wrong people?
At the end of the day, you have to think whether all these troubles are really worth it or not. You know you are not allowed to visit a particular site during school and office hours when you find it blocked. Going all out to bypass internet filters in order to regain access is considered a breach of rules. Choosing to surf the web freely without proper authorization can mean getting suspension, loosing complete internet access rights or even loosing the job. Nowadays, mobile broadband is so cheap and wireless network coverage is quite complete and adequate. Just bring along the notebook to work and classes, then access whatever sites you want from your own computer, own wireless network. The monthly subscription costs nowadays are around $10 to 20 depending on which cities you are in and whether there is a price war between the telecommunication companies at the moment. If you already own a notebook or considering to buy a cheap notebook or an even cheaper netbook like the Asus EEE, then just get a mobile broadband plan from the various competing service providers and be done with free proxy websites. You will no longer encounter website filters on the wireless network you paid for.
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