How to Surf Anonymously
If you are interested in learning how to surf anonymously, this article will give you some tips. Today, it is very easy for third parties to trace your internet activity. The government, businesses, hackers and other individuals can easily place cookies on your computer and trace your surfing activities. They do this so that they can get information from you that will help them better market to you. Other people or groups do this for far more sinister reasons. They may want to steal sensitive information such as credit card information, financial account numbers and your social security number. Some websites will automatically attempt to download spyware when you visit their website.
When you use the internet, you leave a foot print. Other sites can see your IP address, what sites you have visited and even where you live. One way to avoid this and conversely, surf the internet without worrying about whether or not your personal information gets out, is to use an anonymous proxy server. These allow you to prevent your browser from directly connecting to other websites. The proxy will be in contact with the website and not your browser. Consequently, the sites that you visit, will pick up the IP address of the proxy and not your own. There you have it, one great tip to help you learn how to surf anonymously.
Some of the ways to surf anonymously are :
- Obviously use a web proxy to open the site. Here is a list of top proxies
- Use the ip address of a website instead of the main url. e.g. 113.434.343.433 instead of www.proxyblog.org
- Block the software that is tracking your activity. Sometimes you cant do that because of password and administrative blocks.
- Use url redirects to open the web site. e.g. Tinyurl.com and Snipurl.com
- You can see the wesite content on Google using Google cache. Type cache:sitename.com in google search and you will see the site. This function is available on many search engines like yahoo, msn etc.
- Use google translation tool to open the blocked website. Yeh, its a type of proxy. 
e.g. http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com
- Use google mobile search to see the site.
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