Monday, May 6, 2013
Setting up an anonymous proxy is generally a very
effective way to maintain your browsing privacy, but it can also be a
complicated process. Unless, that is, you get some help from ChrisPC Free
Anonymous Proxy, which makes it as easy as clicking a button.
Just about everything happens from a single dialog, and the main option you might want to consider there is choosing your preferred proxy country. There are 50 possibilities, from Argentina to the USA, or you can simply accept the default "Random Country" setting and see what happens.
Just about everything happens from a single dialog, and the main option you might want to consider there is choosing your preferred proxy country. There are 50 possibilities, from Argentina to the USA, or you can simply accept the default "Random Country" setting and see what happens.
Once you've sorted that
out, though, all that's left to do is click "Connect to proxy".
ChrisPC Free Anonymous Proxy will then find a proxy server for you, modify your
settings to use it, and you'll immediately be ready to surf with your new
identity and IP address. (Although it may be wise to restart your browser, just
to avoid potential problems.)
This all worked just
fine for us; we were given a French IP address and could then browse as normal.
Browsing speeds were a little slow, but you can always try connecting to
another server. And the program also allows you to selectively activate the
proxy for, say, just Opera, so you could use that only when necessary, and turn
to another browser when performance was important.
ChrisPC Free Anonymous
Proxy won't (for the most part) allow you to watch TV from sites such as Hulu,
the BBC and so on. The developers have produced an "Expat Internet
Browsing Add-on" which they claim
will do the trick, though - it's yours for $12.99.
Please note, ChrisPC
Free Anonymous Proxy attempts to install additional free software during its
setup process. When we tried this we had to click "Decline" on one
page, clear some check boxes on another, and clear an "Install
Complitly" option on the final page. The precise details may vary over
time, though, so read each step carefully before clicking "Next" or
"Finish".
Build 4.10 brings these
changes:
- Unblock new website
with the Expat Internet Browsing Mode: arte.tv, RTBF.be, LAOLA.tv, W9 Replay.
- Added multilanguage interface: English, French, German, Romanian.
- Other small fixes and improvements.
- Added multilanguage interface: English, French, German, Romanian.
- Other small fixes and improvements.
Platforms: Windows 7 (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit),
Windows 8, Windows Server, Windows Vista (32 bit), Windows Vista (64 bit),
Windows XP
Version: 3.50
Licence: Freeware
Version: 3.50
Licence: Freeware
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