Today’s post is from my previous guest author, Darko Twist from MixTheNet, a site that is dedicated to helping you discover cool and useful internet resources, tips and so much more. Enjoy! - Brian
A while ago I wrote a post on web proxy sites and how they can help you hide your IP address.
However, I must admit something…there are way more powerful ways to hide your IP and protect your privacy online. I’ve talked to many people about this (people who have the strongest reasons to hide their IP, hope you don’t have any similar motivations like they do 
) for a simple reason: They are most likely to know the best ways that exist to do this thing.
The below resources and tips are 100% white hat.
Principle #1: Public = bad
Most likely you know that public proxies are one way to hide your IP. However, you have no idea who owns them (he may be using a program to log all your data). You also have no idea whether they work until you configure your browser (to check if they work, go to whatismyip.com).
ProxyFirewall is a great software to check for working proxies.
This approach is very time consuming. It’s hard enough to come with a good proxy list you can easily import into a proxy checker, not to talk about finding WORKING proxies. It’s a rat race really. You’ll be spending a lot of time for nothing.
Instead, I suggest you to spend your time on something more productive that will actually bring you money which you can later use to buy a VPN account. Strong VPN is a reliable service of this kind.
You see, trying to find something that’s available for everyone will take you hours of your time per month. And time = money. So that’s why I think it’s much better you use the time you’ll otherwise spend on finding working proxy servers for something else that will bring you money which you can use to purchase a reliable VPN server. Virtual Private Networks are today the most secure and reliable ways to hide your IP. Almost all of the people I know who are serious about this use VPNs.
Principle #2 Belonging to someone else = risky. Belonging to someone you don’t know much about = VERY risky
Web proxies are really popular these days. For a reason. They’re free + easy to use + they work which makes them very appealing for most people.
However, I strongly discourage using most web proxies, for the reasons outlined in this post below.
If you don’t know who owns them exactly then you should accept the risk that person may record everything you do via that proxy.
The solution? Get yourself a cheap host and .info domain and create your own web proxy! Use Glupe or CGI Proxy.
Yes I know…it costs money. But as I outlined above, these days the TIME you’ll spend finding 100% free ways to protect your IP will lose you a lot of MONEY which you can use to get WAY superior protection.
