How to find proxies that are not blocked/filtered by your school/college/workplace
Of course, you’ve found this site - chavstar.com - so now have an endless supply of web proxies, but what if this site gets blocked from your place of work, uni, school, college etc - how can you find a list of proxies that aren’t going to be blocked - and so actually work?
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Well there are many methods. Of course none will ever be perfect, some proxies you find will always be banned. But here are what I used to use when at college. My college used to use the services of a very large web filtering software company, and they seemed to always catch new working proxies within a couple of weeks of me finding one that worked (i guess, as they’re a national company (this was in the UK) once a college finds one, they send the URL to the main filtering software company who block it for all colleges)). So because of this I always had to stay one step ahead of them and come up with ways to find 100% working web proxies. In the end I just ended up hosting my own proxy, and it never got caught as I was the only one using it, but unless you’ve got your own web server I don’t think you will be able to do that!
Use Google & search engines to find working proxies
Google is your best friend. It is pointless just searching for “web proxy” on Google - the filtering/blocking software people would have banned all of the proxies in the top 100 pages. You need to be inventive.
Search for “proxy” with a slightly random word. You don’t want a completly random word, as you probably will just come up with information about proxies than working proxies themselves. Use words that you think proxy owners may have mentioned on the proxy descriptions. For example, I found proxies before by searching for these terms:
- american proxy
- Another related tip is to do a similar search, but for any other country you can think of
- access proxy
Another good tip is to use other search engines. Use really unpopular ones - they often have crap results, but that also means that the top results in unpopular search engines (for terms like working proxy, myspace proxy, website proxy) are often sites that wouldn’t even be in the top 100 pages of Google/Yahoo, so less chance of the filtering software knowing about them.
Mispellings
Proxy owners often use mispellings on purpose. Many won’t even mention the word “proxy” on the site. Search for things like prxy (+ a keyword), proxie (+ a keyword) etc etc.
Use webmaster selling sites
A lot of webmasters (people who own sites) create web proxy sites and then just sell them on. They are often brand new, so won’t be found in the filtering softwares databases. Some example searches in google (change the keywords a little, add “brand new”, etc):
Subscribe to sites like this in your RSS news reader
RSS feeds are basically the content from a site, but without any of the website layout etc. They are used in feedreaders, and it is very rare for a feed reader to get banned. Add feeds, from sites like this, that list proxies to your feed reader. Our feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/web-proxies
You can also very often set sites up to “email me when there is a new post” so you will get new proxy info through your email account.
Got any more tips about how to find proxies that are not banned yet by your school/college/etc? Leave a comment!
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