Hi everybody, Olly Connelly here at guvnr.com, Olly at guvnr.com if you want to drop me an email. And this is the last part of my five part series on how to be anonymous online. And today, we’re going to look at some proxy servers and how to set one up which is—thankfully a very, very simple task if you’re using Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer.
So let me show first of all what to do in Firefox and the principle is the same for both; I’ll get through Internet Explorer in just a minute. So first of all, well, a proxy server is a way to help you. You could be anonymous on the internet. And it already revolves around the thing called your IP address.
So what you need is to effectively change your IP address so that when your web browser connects to a computer where you’re downloading a web page from. Along the way, there is a kind of a middle man doing a hand shake for you and so instead of your IP address; instead of your identification going through, they will be the identification of that middle man.
And so, what we’re going to do first of all is look to see what my IP address is, so that I can show you that it’s going to change. So if I click on here, you can see that my current IP address is that and correctly, it says that I am in Spain.
So, you can then go to a site such as this one here, proxy4free.com. You can—there’s lots of ease if you just put in something like free proxy list into your Google, something like that. You will be able to find a whole bunch of them. But this one is good as any and you will find the daily. The list is updated with a whole bunch of new IP addresses of proxies.
And so for example, let’s pull this one here. That one there and we’ll copy that and this one is in the United States. So what you have to do with this. Now this is very, very simple to change, you go to Tools and Options and you put your main Options window here. If you go into Advanced and then into Connection section here to Settings and then at the moment, it should say that you have got ‘No proxy.’
And so if you pop-in a check mark there, a manual proxy configuration and you just paste the proxy address that you’ve got. And we’re looking at this one here and the port is 3128. So, we just OK that. Let’s start it. That is what we have to do. And then just OK that.
And then my IP should have changed. So if I refresh this page, at the moment it says—that was always assuming that this particular address works. It should change. Some of these addresses don’t work and you have to look for another one and sometimes you have to look for a few before you even find one that works but this one does. And correctly it is flagged that I am in the United States which I am not of course. I am in Spain but because I am using a middle man; a middle proxy address in the states. It’s coming out with that address and assuming that I am where the proxy is.
So I can now surf the web of whatever sites I want to and whatever site I go to, it will assume that that is me whereas in reality, I am somebody completely different. And so it’s a way to be anonymous.
Now, if you’re doing this in Internet Explorer, I’ll just quickly show you how to do that. It’s the same principle except of course this is an upholding browser. But anyway, but if you do use it, you do it. Go into Tools and Internet Options. And then in here, you go into—what do you do, I think you’re going to Connection and then you go into this section here; Local Area Network (LAN) settings. We’ll just click on LAN setting. And then here you go. Oh, it’s already checked. I’m not even using a proxy server.
So basically you take that and then you put in your address again and then you put in whatever port it is and then you go OK. And you go OK and actually it will work. And that’s it. If you got the same principle for both; there you go. That is your guvnr tutorial into how to use a proxy server. You can find a whole bunch of other tutorials and how to’s and tips and what have you in the blog section of my website; guvnr.com. Okay, thanks for listening. Bye-bye.
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