Since SafeWeb's Secure Surfing page changed its functionality to only serve the "Voice of America" for the Chinese People, we have been looking for alternatives. We include these links at this time for those who wish to explore various options for secure surfing. WCWCW provides these links as a service to those who are interested in online privacy. We make no money from them and take no responsibility for them.
We intend to expand this list as we become aware of other intelligent options for online privacy.
Please read our Basics page to get an overview of some basic issues in secure surfing.
Secure Surfing Software Reviewed Anonymizer | The Cloak | Safe Surf with CGI Proxy Ended!. |
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Anonymizer.Com no longer offers a web-based service in addition to their downloadable program. You can view their privacy policy Here. They also offer a paid services in various 'levels' of security. Their paid service claims it protects you not only from websites but also "Premium users have the option of using URL Encryption which protects them from the logging and tracking methods most often employed by intermediaries (ISPs, firewalls, etc). Users who desire a completely secure connection between their computer and ours should look into an Anonymizer SSH account." They also state:
"Will Anonymizer share my information with other companies or people?
Anonymizer will not sell, rent, trade, or lease your personal information for marketing purposes. We may share information with third parties who furnish services necessary to provide you with the products and services offered by us but only if these third parties agree to comply with our privacy policies and not use your personal data for any other purpose. Apart from this, we disclose personal information only when we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable terms of use or other contract rights, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues (including abuse of our products or services by spamming or other abuses of netiquette, and use of our products or services to attack other systems or to gain unauthorized access to any other system) or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Anonymizer, our customers or the public. Please note that if Anonymizer sells all or a portion of its business or assets, Anonymizer reserves the right to transfer customer information to the acquirer as part of that acquisition. ."
You can check out Anonymizer.Com for your self and see if it meets your needs.
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The Cloak is another service that seems quite comprehensive. Their website contains a "features" page which includes:"HTTP and HTTPS anonymizing proxy: hide your identity from the sites you visit"
"Encrypted connection: hide your surfing from local snooping"
"Remote cookies: keep cookies at our site, and delete them after each session"
"User configurable content filtration: selectively remove Javascript, Java, and active content"
"FREE anonymous browsing ... just read our terms, privacy policy, and abuse policy and start surfing"
"Need more bandwidth than the free service provides? Check out our pay service."
Terms and Conditions, Abuse Policy, and Privacy Policy are Here and we think that they look better than some.
We took the "Cloak" for a quick "spin" in "free surfing mode" and things were looking good, though a bit slow. I guess this is to be expected with any free service of this nature. The Cloak's payed service information is here and it promises more bandwidth. The Cloak's payed service seems to be charging people on the the used bandwidth, which seems as fair as any system.
If this sounds interesting, check out The Cloak
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This Free Service has ended as our server logs show that it is being used almost exclusively by major internet search engines (Hear that Yahoo...Baidu? Like you don't have enough money to run your own search engines and want to use my server, bandwidth and IP address for your robots.)
Online Feedback Form for our consideration.
Once again we offer these links only as a service to the internet community and take no responsibility and accept no liability for them.
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