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Show HN: AnonySurfer.com – Distributed anonymous web/HTTP proxy and VPN

anonysurfer.com

31 pointsalexS10 comments

Sorry to break your bubble, but you are not going to last.

Man, you are selling PPTP VPN on a $14/year VPS... and no, RamNode will not let you run public proxies either. Nor will do Atlantic.net in your $1/month VPS.

Nice try, but... no.

Good site tho you might get in trouble over the anonymous mailer functionality and endup with ips being blacklisted or your service being kicked of from Digital Ocean which you seem to use.

...on further thinking might be a good idea to remove it altogether

The site is a proxy (and a good one it seems) trying to include this anonymous mailer seems like a bolted unrelated feature that does not improve the main service and could if anything harm it

Starting off young programmers make mistakes of just because they can do something they should code it :) but its often best to step back and ask "what is the aim of X and how does it improve Y". Example: web developers adding scrolling text and flash intro pages to sites in 90s/early 00s, not because it was needed (quite the opposite from usability point of view) but because "they just could"

I tested on a pretty normal website and was greeted by this warning: "You must subscribe to surf this kind of content! Note, we block pornography. You must subscribe to surf. ".

thanks for reporting -- i've weakened the javascript a bit on that front. what site did you visit?

You seem to simply be scanning the DOM for keywords. The first site I happened to try contained the word "gay" in one of the headlines, and surely enough http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay is also blocked. Doing this on the client side through javascript seems hopeless btw.

https://join.me/665-651-418

What this^ is: A flash widget with a VNC view into a Windows computer running Chrome with the Google Analytics page of anonysurfer.com open

Web-based proxies are not anonymous. Specifically, Javascript proxification is lacking in all of them, and your IP address will leak one way or the other.

alexS, I spotted what might be a trivial bug (or could be a feature ;-) but instead of posting it here, I decided to email it to your founders<at>anonysurfer.com address just to be safe.

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