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Thank you! HN front page with a buggy site feels like coming to school without your homework. But as Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder) once said, "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late"

> Is it OK to use this for moderate/high volume stuff?

At the moment I am not incredibly confident about the countries where it relies on third-party proxies. Although as the database of proxy IPs grows I'll implement load balancing of sorts to address this. For US, NL, SG and UK it shares the infrastructure with another proxy that used to serve 200K visitors/day without a hitch.

> Does it use any kind caching?

Nope, not yet.

> Any plans on adding a way to use HTTPS?

Absolutely. It's not done yet because it'll make proxy implementation notably more complex and fragile (you can't use proxy domains like youtube.com.prx.us.teleport.to with SSL because you can't buy a cert for ..X domains, only for *.X)

It is indeed a web proxy service with country selection - something that is not addressed by other web proxies AFAIK.

Also, web proxies aren't as trivial as you are implying.

Might be a bug on my end, but Hulu is generally very good at detecting proxies and VPNs. Will look into it though.

On it, thanks for the input :)

Edit: fixed

Damn last minute changes! Fixed.

Edit: although for some countries you still need to manually try a few different proxies before it works. I have a solution to this in the works, but couldn't wait to show off.

IP blacklists are a waste of everyone's time.

Oh, they would be. In Russia, a state agency is tasked with finding and deleting swearing in user comments[1]

Also, as a russian I'd like to make it clear that RomanPushkin does not represent me.

1. http://rkn.gov.ru/press/p696/news24031.htm

True. However this specific person being part of the problem makes me have a lot less sympathy for them.

1. Buy BTC with cash

2. Buy a domain with BTC via Tor

3. Buy hosting with BTC via Tor

4. Do not accidentally leak your identity in one of million possible ways

#1-3 are pretty easy, but #4 is next to impossible. If nobody cares about you there might be some small room for error. But generally it takes one smallest mistake and you are ultimately busted.

Wow, so much negativity here. The whole thing does seem a little disappointing, but we have to start somewhere, don't we?

Added to our (moderately large) site.

I think you misunderstood me. My argument was simply that there are many people who support Yanukovich and unsurprisingly feel disdain towards those trying to overthrow the president they've elected.

While I sympathize with the protesters, the disdain you speak of should surprise no one.

First, Yanukovich won the last election when his opponents were in power. I think this is a good enough indicator that he has lots of supporters.

Second, the Ukrainians went through all of this already in 2004 and apparently nothing particularly good came out of it. The country is in the same place it was 10 years ago and Yanukovich can hardly be held responsible for that.

Just to add a personal anecdote... I've met a random Ukrainian couple while vacationing recently. They didn't speak Russian at all, so most definitely not from the east or other pro-russia kind of Ukrainians. And when asked about this uprising they expressed complete and utter apathy. They had zero hopes for their lives to improve regardless of the outcome.

I've just checked and the content is still there, so he clearly hasn't stolen it.

I used to get pretty upset at these constant news reports of expanding Internet censorship. Then it occurred to me that it simply means that the reactionary forces are (finally) starting to see it as a threat. And that is a good sign.

If anyone is inspired by this article and feels adventurous, I'm currently trying to sell a 1.5M/day inventory that is mostly across porn sites. Hit me up at dr8ww@notsharingmy.info for dirt cheap CPM rates.

As a human being I am angered by these rapid advancements of Internet censorship in the developed world.

As someone in the business of circumventing said censorship I am excited to have the solvent westerners as my clients in additional to generally poor third-world folk we are currently serving.