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Old December 25th 17, 07:05 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Chaya Eve
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Default A usable free proxy server for Windows users (emphasis on usable!)

On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 17:03:40 +0100, Michael Logies
wrote:

But they all seem to offer only a web page for access, no proxy
configuration data for your web browser.


Thank you for checking that out where I was just asking if folks already
had the experience - so I appreciate your kind largesse!

Perhaps you are asking for the impossible, because there is no
business model for what you are looking for. Proxies need a lot of
bandwith and have to obey to law, both is expensive.


It seems that you may be completely correct in that they all seem to be web
portals, which allows them to add advertisements.

So it may be that the *only* free proxy-configuration type is the Opera
model, which is configured by clicking on the "enable vpn" button in the
web browser settings.

That's a lesson in and of itself.

Offering a proxy over a web page makes ads possible. And selling VPN
services is a business, too. Offering a free web proxy with
configuration data makes no sense - who should pay for it?


I agree with you that the free proxy server configuration model does not
appear to exist (or we can't find it).

I guess I just figured that it would exist because that's what Tor is,
essentially, and what Opera uses, essentially - but they're special cases
of the configurable proxy situation.

So the question has kind of morphed, out of necessity, to one of whether a
configurable free proxy server setup outside of those two special cases
even exists.
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