What do you guys use for anonymous internet surfing?

[Slew Foot]

Any good free programs out there that will work with Firefox 3 Beta 5? Thanks.

 

[Greg04]

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
Any good free programs out there that will work with Firefox 3 Beta 5? Thanks.

Good luck. I have used most on the market and have had major problems with all of them. The biggest, and most common? They stop working at some point and don't tell you. But, tell me if you find something.

 

[Slew Foot]

bump for ideas

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Tor network? Not a program persay but it'll get the job done.

 

[mooseracing]

Yep tor w/ provity or provixty (something like that), It integrates with the older version of FF, not sure if it works on the new one.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: mooseracing
Yep tor w/ provity or provixty (something like that), It integrates with the older version of FF, not sure if it works on the new one.

Privoxy

Tor was always way too slow for me, and none of the free proxy browsers worked very well. I'd suggest manually finding proxy servers.

 

[lxskllr]

Your neighbors WiFi :^P

 

[Canai]

I saw this earlier while reading about Charter's packet snooping http://archetwist.com/en/opera/operator

I'll give it a shot when I get home.

 

[revolutn]

I've never found a satisfactory solution.

Tor + Privoxy makes my connection feel like the old 300 Baud dial up days.

Not to mention some sites detect a proxy and block you from accessing their site anyway to prevent proxy based attacks.

 

[Modelworks]

Someone elses internet connection seems to work pretty good

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I think there's someway you can make Tor faster, you just have to limit the number of routers its going through. I just don't know how to do that.

 

[gigahertz20]

Tor network software is the best, I wouldn't leave it turned on all the time or you'll get consistently slow speeds. I've used it to just mess around with it and it wasn't that slow, if you want to do something anonymous turn it on for a few minutes then turn it off.

For 24/7 anonymous internet surfing that is fast, you would have to pay for it, the Xerobank network acts the same way as the Tor network, but it is private thus much faster supposedly. I haven't tried it, but you can download their trial and see what the speeds are like.

http://xerobank.com/

 

[Koharski]

Tor stinks, half the websites I try to visit wind up giving me some shpiel about how they can't accept users using TOR anymore due to abuse.

The only way to go is VPN service + paid SOCKS proxies.

 

[akhilles]

xB Browser +1. It uses Tor transparently. The free version is slow, but ok for forums. The paid version is fast.

There's a few free anonymous surfing services that run in any web browsers. Great for surfing at work. This is one:

http://www.proxyweb.net/

 

[heymrdj]

I run my own proxy server in a data center along with my Zimbra Collaboration System and my standard Apache/PHP set up. The proxy is personal use only for me and my friends, and uses it's own IP separate from my other Apache/PHP sites.