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Bypass ISP Website Censorship With Alkasir 2.0

| Date: November 17, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: alkasir, censorship, linux, macosx, proxy, tips n tricks, ubuntu, windows

Alkasir is a free, open source website censorship circumvention tool, available for Linux, Windows and Mac. Android and iOS versions are "main objectives for 2016". For now it only works with Google Chrome.

alkasir website censorship circumvention tool

Access Blocked Websites In Censored Regions With Lantern

| Date: May 26, 2016 | View Comments | Tags: censorship, lantern, linux, proxy, tips n tricks, ubuntu

Lantern is a free, open source internet censorship circumvention software that was created to "give users fast access to the blocked Internet". The application is available for desktops (Linux, Windows, Mac) and Android.

 Update: Lantern no longer provides free unlimited usage (the code is still open source). Now you get 800 MB each month, and to get unlimited data, you'll need to pay $27 (USD) for 1 year or $48 (USD) for 2 years (these are special launch prices and may go up).

Lantern unblock websites

Tor GUI `SelekTOR` Sees New Major Release

| Date: October 20, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: anonymity, linux, privacy, proxy, selektor, tor, ubuntu

SelekTOR, an open source Java-based GUI front-end for Tor, was updated to version 3.12 (now 3.12e) recently and it includes new advanced options as well as a new Tor Monitor panel that shows the Tor client startup info and its current status.

SelekTOR

SelekTOR: Tor GUI With Country Exit Node Selection, Useful To Bypass Country Restrictions For Various Websites

| Date: September 08, 2014 | View Comments | Tags: anonymity, linux, proxy, selektor, tor, ubuntu

"Tor is free software for enabling online anonymity and resisting censorship. It is designed to make it possible for users to surf the Internet anonymously, so their activities and location can't be discovered by government agencies, corporations, or anyone else". More information @ Tor & Wikipedia. 

Selektor TOR gui

SelekTOR is an open source Java-based GUI front-end for the Tor Client which has a few advantages over Vidalia (the official Tor GUI), such as:
  • Simplifies the usage and configuration of Tor in client mode, SelekTOR does most of the hard stuff for you;
  • you can quickly select Tor exit nodes by country;
  • SelekTOR can continuously monitor and maintain a connection to the exit node with the best response time, with as little downtime as possible;
  • as well as proxying all traffic through the active Tor node, SelekTOR can also do selective routing of traffic through the active tor node based on URL patterns.

The option to select the Tor exit nodes by country can be used to access websites which aren't available in your country, such as Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ABC, Pandora, British TV, HBO Go and so on (these depend on your country, obviously).

How To Set A Proxy For The Terminal [Quick Linux Tip]

| Date: October 11, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: linux, proxy, terminal, tips n tricks, tor, ubuntu

If you set a global proxy in Gnome (I'm not sure about other desktop environments), you'll notice that the terminal ignores it. Here's how to set a proxy for the terminal:

How To Install TOR In Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat [Repository]

| Date: September 16, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: 10.10, anonymity, internet, linux, maverick meerkat, proxy, tor, ubuntu, web

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.

The Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat final release is very close (23 days) yet so many repositories are not ready for it: GetDeb, Medibuntu and many others. So we must find alternatives to install some applications.

TOR was available in a PPA for Ubuntu (sevenmachines) which has been deleted. There is also an official TOR Ubuntu repository which unfortunately has also not been updated for Maverick, just like the repositories I mentioned above. But the Lucid packages work just fine - I'm running it on Maverick for a month now and everything works. So here is how to add this repository in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and install TOR:

How To Get GIT Working Behind A Firewall [Using A SOCKS Proxy]

| Date: March 15, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: git, linux, proxy, tor

Some GIT servers support the http protocol but some don't and if you're behind a firewall like me (at work - so I don't have control over it and most ports are blocked) you basically can't access GIT.

But with the help of WebUpd8 reader RKV and this post, I got GIT working behind a firewall using TOR.

Differences Between 3 Types Of Proxy Servers: Normal, Transparent And Reverse Proxy

| Date: February 15, 2010 | View Comments | Tags: internet, proxy, rkv, web

proxy types


What is a Proxy Server?


A Proxy server is an intermediary machine, between a client and the actual server, which is used to filter or cache requests made by the client.

This article is focused on the Different Caching Web Proxies.

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