Proxies

[azande]

Does anybody surf using proxies? What are the advantages? And the disadvantages/limitations?

I have been looking at whether it is worth using them but I only found very discordant opinions (yeah right, like I will not find them here! )

Thanks!

[ducasi]

I, unfortunately, have to surf through proxies.

At work it's a real pain cos it needs to be manually configured, it's quite slow and it keeps blocking me from certain "more interesting" web sites.

At home all (port 80) web browsing goes through NTL's "transparent" proxies which quite often over-cache and don't want to serve up the most recent content of web sites.

However, by choice, I use a personal proxy called Privoxy which lets me do cool things, like get rid of annoying flash-based adverts and pop-ups.

[drathzel]

I, unfortunately, have to surf through proxies.

At work it's a real pain cos it needs to be manually configured, it's quite slow and it keeps blocking me from certain "more interesting" web sites.

At home all (port 80) web browsing goes through NTL's "transparent" proxies which quite often over-cache and don't want to serve up the most recent content of web sites.

However, by choice, I use a personal proxy called Privoxy which lets me do cool things, like get rid of annoying flash-based adverts and pop-ups.

WOOOOSH

[Zebra Woman]

WOOOOSH

Yup

He's just parted my hair too...

[drathzel]

Yup

He's just parted my hair too...

oh i am sooo glad, thought i was the only one!

[ducasi]

When someone asks a technical question – they're going to get a technical answer.

If you don't understand it, please don't let it trouble your pretty little heads.

*patronising pat on the head*

[drathzel]

When someone asks a technical question – they're going to get a technical answer.

If you don't understand it, please don't let it trouble your pretty little heads.

*patronising pat on the head*

WOOOOW look mum, a talking motorbike!!!!!

[ducasi]

Look, someone who can't get her vB code tags right in her signature!!!

[David Bailey]

Look, someone who can't get her vB code tags right in her signature!!!

She's probably too busy, you know, having dates and stuff...

BTW, I didn't think your explanation was too techie, does that make me Officially Sad?

[ducasi]

She's off to the class I'm going to be late for!

Perhaps Zebra Woman or Drathzel, when she gets back, can decide whether we are both officially sad.

[drathzel]

Yes you are both officially sad!

[Magic Hans]

Yes you are both officially sad!

Which may not be great ..... however, it's a darn sight better that being sadly official!!!! [in my humble opinion as full paid up member of the unofficial anti-establishment/global/capitalist/freeze .... in fact everything arnarchy party]

[Lucy Locket]

I, unfortunately, have to surf through proxies.

At work it's a real pain cos it needs to be manually configured, it's quite slow and it keeps blocking me from certain "more interesting" web sites.

At home all (port 80) web browsing goes through NTL's "transparent" proxies which quite often over-cache and don't want to serve up the most recent content of web sites.

However, by choice, I use a personal proxy called Privoxy which lets me do cool things, like get rid of annoying flash-based adverts and pop-ups.

WOW!!!! didn't know you could talk dirty

[David Bailey]

Which may not be great ..... however, it's a darn sight better that being sadly official!!!! [in my humble opinion as full paid up member of the unofficial anti-establishment/global/capitalist/freeze .... in fact everything arnarchy party]

I love it when people say they're a member of an anarchist party, it just cracks me up... Almost as good as the Anarchist Uniform...

[ducasi]

WOW!!!! didn't know you could talk dirty

I could do down-right filthy – but I don't want to be labelled officially even sadder.