Within four days Ixquick search will start anonymous proxy service...

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Hi malware fighter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luovo73Bjqc

polonus

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I used to use ixquick (and dogpile, just loved the name) many years ago and then it was one of the best.

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what’s benefits of such sites in compare to software anonymous proxy services? (e.g. Tor, JAP JonDo…) or even VPN anonymous proxy service

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Hi Omid Farhang,

Every keystroke you put into your browser, just goes in plain text over the network.
You can sniff that out yourself with a sniffer.
So would you use IXquick, your search queries can just be read while they go over the wires of your ISP, c.q. filters of your Telecom central.
To put it in one sentence, if they would tap you, they will see all of this.

The only way to prevent that is to set up an encrypted connection to a (paid) service.
But mind you, the stronger the encryption the slower the process because
of the encrypting/decrypting process takes time.
Then all encryption can be cracked depending on the resources and time.

Then you cannot know what a paid service will do with your data.

The best to look for is TOR http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(netwerk)
It is free, but also this means you are being monitored, because “why should you use Tor?”
they would think…
The proxy you land at varies all the time, it cannot be checked by your ISP just like that.
you land at a different end-proxy all the time, so you are difficult to track, or you must
put identifiable information in your messages (length of your shoe-laces, collar-size in combination
with a well known nick) In my country everybody knows everything about another person
just by knowing a postal code and a street number…how long you stayed in the shop,
for what products you went there, and they could link all the profiles of your shop-card,
credit card, metro-card, train-card, all digital tracks…will lead to your digital profile!

Anyway you have no guarantee what happens to your personal data that way.
There is none, so you must also have understood that staying anonymous on the Internet
is becoming more and more difficult (Flash Cookies that will rebuild deleted cookies
all of the while, script that decode all your browsing results, bugs that track you,
etc. etc. etc.),

polonus

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Thank you Polonus for the this nice reply :slight_smile: