It seems some filtering software now also blocks web proxy list sites. So, this may give you some troubles in getting the latest web proxy. For example, a few users reported recently they cannot access the most active web proxy list, UnRestrictedSurf, which is hosted by us. This is not the end of the world. Even your school or company blocks web proxy list sites, you can still get the list of latest web proxy  through Twitter, Email, RSS feed and Yahoo group. Here is how. From Twitter. Once a web proxy is approved (it is free, but we need make sure it is really a free web proxy) on our list, it will be immediately twitted. Normally, this happens daily except Saturday and Sunday. So, you can just follow us on Twitter to get the latest web proxy immediately. Simple, right?  3 of the latest tweets are also shown on the sidebar of this blog. From Email. Many of you probably don't know, we maintain a proxy newsletter, which sends the latest web proxy listed on unrestrictedsurf.com. The newsletter usually is sent weekly, or bi-weekly if there are so many new listings. So, you can subscribe here. Please choose web proxy in…

It is important to go through the guidelines of Adsense before you place ads on your site. Most free web proxy webmasters may just skip the reading. If you do not follow the rules set by Google, the consequence can be severe: your account is terminated and you are banned from Adsense. It does not need a rocket scientist to understand the Adsense guidelines, but sometimes some webmasters may get confused, and interpret them wrongly. So, I summarize the common mistakes made by free web proxy webmasters on Google Adsense placement. You need follow these five rules to keep your Adsense account safe.

The $199 price tag of Kindle Fire is really irresistible. Of course, Amazon need earn money. Some analysts say Amazon will earn back the profit margin in contents. This is absolutely true. But the overlooked (potentially) big earning machine of this cheap tablet is users' browsing data handled by the built-in Silk browser.

Of course, most our visitors are using our free anonymous web proxy service. Web proxy is quite simple. It acts as an agent between your computer and the site you want to browse. That's it. People are using web proxy mainly for the following 5 reasons:

Glype proxy script is a free-to-use, web-based proxy script written in. It is open source, but it is NOT released as GPL or a similar license. Its license requires: either keeping the back link or getting a (paid) license. Glype script has become very popular after PHProxy project ceased. Glype is similar to PHProxy, but there is one fundamental difference: Glype uses curl to retrieve web pages. In addition, compared to PHProxy, Glype has more caching controls. On May 7, 2010, Baron Munchausen, the administrator of Proxy.org announced that he acquired Glype. (source: http://forums.glype.com/news-updates/1286-baron-acquires-glype.html and http://proxy.org/forum/1273292889.html) The official website of Glype is: http://www.glype.com. A live example of Glype is UtopianPal.com. Some tutorials for Glype: How To Install and Configure Glype Proxy Script. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV6TQk3C2c4  

For web proxy webmasters, the first thing is to choose a proper proxy script. In this articles, 5 of the most popular web proxy scripts are compared. This is your definite guide for you on choosing a web proxy script. I received some inquiries periodically on choosing a proxy script to start a web proxy site. So, I decided to post my opinions here. It is always a tough question, when “the best” is involved. However, for a web proxy site, the candidates are quite limited. For simplicity and legal reasons, I will limit my discussion on free scripts only. The possible options usually include: CGIProxy, Glype, PHProxy, Surrogafier and Zelune.

This is part II of TheProxyGuide tutorials on PHProxy (PHP proxy) script. In this tutorial, we will show you how to insert advertisement code and how to customize the address form. PHProxy script (PHP proxy) is one of the best proxy scripts and is used by many sites, although the development has stopped. The demo site of PHProxy is setup at: http://theproxyfree.com. In this tutorial, you need change two files: index.php and index.inc.php

PHProxy (PHP proxy script) was a very popular proxy script before the author,Abdullah Arif, discontinued the project and relinquish all rights (as well as responsibilities) on September 7, 2007. The script is very similar to CGIProxy script. Actually the author also mentioned that the project was inspired by CGIProxy project. However, because PHProxy was written in PHP, compared with CGIProxy, PHProxy is generally easier to install for most webmasters. The last release (version 0.5b2) of this script was on January 27, 2007 under GPL license. The script is available for download in sourceforge. A copy of the last version (0.52b2) can also be found on TheProxyGuide (click to download). A demo of PHProxy script is available at: phproxy.goyap.net Usually PHProxy does not need complicate templates and most webmasters just change the color schemes. A typical proxy sites powered by PHProxy is TheProxyFree.com, which uses the default template with slight modifications. Once of the largest collection of PHProxy (PHP proxy ) script powered websites can be found at:UnRestrictedSurf. Tutorials on PHProxy: 1. How to install PHProxy ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOwVrm6T0zI  ) 2. PHProxy (PHP proxy) tips and tricks: insert ad code and customization http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOwVrm6T0zI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lsaAnr5GFk  

This is part I of TheproxyGuide tutorials on PHProxy script. In this tutorial, it was shown how to download and edit the files to make a workable proxy in a few mins.

Anonymous proxy servers, e.g., sgmum.net are most frequently used because these web servers do not share your IP address or any information about you or your computer. These anonymous proxy servers will protect you from different forms of malware such as viruses or spam.

Glype proxy is currently one of the most popular proxy scripts written in php. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure your Glype proxy script. You may check the demo site at: http://GoYap.net/glype/

Most web proxy webmasters use third-party ad services. Some ad providers are good, some do not allow web proxy, and some may run away after a few months. In this tutorial, I will introduce you a few reputable (for web proxy sites) ad providers.

This TheProxyGuide.com tutorial shows you how to find the latest web proxy. If your ISP keeps block web proxy sites, you need find latest web proxy from specialized list, e.g., UnrestrictedSurf.com. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed to get fresh proxy list in real time.

Socks proxy is a type of tunneling using socks 4 or socks 5 protocols.

Tunneling proxy may have various meanings; but most time, this refers to socks proxy. As the name suggests, socks proxy use sock 4 or 5 protocol, which performs at an intermediate layer between the presentation layer and the transport layer. Socks (tunneling) proxy can be used for any form of TCP or UDP socket connection. This means it can be used for most application software (in addition to http connections), e.g., instant messenger.  

Open proxy may have different interpretations, e.g., some geeks deem web-based proxy as open proxy; others may confuse open proxy with unauthentic proxies. Open proxy usually is similar to web-based proxy (e.g., using http protocol), but there are some differences. Web-based proxy retrieves resources for the client, and at the same time some modifications were also made. For example, most web-based proxy scripts rewrite the java script and act as client directly. But most open proxy only fetch the resources and do not make any modifications. Because open proxy uses http protocol for the connections between the client and the proxy server. This makes it different from tunneling, or socks proxy.  

Using secure web proxy through https connections may bypass the monitor of your local ISP. This is a SWF video. This tutorial show you how to use one of the secure web proxy (Utopianpal.com).

Surrogafier is another proxy script similar to PHProxy. The script only include one php file. The script is not very popular among web proxy webmasters. The initial release (0.7.4.1.b) date was January 9, 2006, and there has been no update since May 6, 2006 (Version 1.0-rc3), according to the project website.

Zelune is another proxy script written in PHP. Its history is quite long; but it has not widely used, partially due to its unclear license terms. It is free, but the license terms was never clearly stated in the download page or with in the script. Also, there are two confusing variations: zelune.com and zelune.net. Now a new member, Phphantom scripts (which was released under GPL), was added to this family in 2008. The website claims that Phphantom scripts will merge with Zelune script; but it seems it is not available at this time yet.

CGIProxy is a free (for non-commercial use only) proxy script written in Perl. The copyright of the script is apparently owned by James Marshall. The script was initially (1.0) release on August 3, 1998. Here is the detailed comparison of PHProxy, CGIProxy and Glype.