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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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