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In almost all cases, an anonymous proxy will get around these guys. (We miss you, Safeweb!)

Might I recommend Orangatango? They provide basically the same service as SafeWeb, but with a much better interface. And they provide anonymous e-mail, too!

(Disclosure: I work there.)

--Bruce

I think it might be Seth. I understand Michael censored him.

Orangatango is one of the few internet privacy companies left, with ZeroKnowledge fading and SafeWeb focusing on VPNs now.

They offer many cool features, including location- and browser-independent bookmarks, e-mail anonymity and spam prevention that really works, and IP address hiding. Check them out if you're interested.

Disclaimer: I used to work for Orangatango

--Bruce

This is what Orangatango is all about; run a virtual browser through SSL and all Comcast will ever see of your surfing is www.orangatango.com:443.

Yeah, I know that I have to give them my credit card and that makes my connection ultimately traceable through one means or another, but it's a far cry better than surfing directly through my ISP.

Well, actually, Orangatango's signup page states:

We accept all standard credit cards and money orders.

I work for Orangatango as a developer, and we care a great deal about the privacy of our users. We specifically offered the money order option so that subscribers could maintain the highest degree of anonymity possible.

--Bruce

Orangatango provides a great method of surfing anonymously for extremely reasonable prices. I love their "MailBlox" email anonymizer.

Orangatango is based on a pretty cool idea: Rather than my computer negotiating a connection with every site I want to connect to, my computer negotiates a connection with Orangatango, and Orangatango does the rest. To the outside world, it looks as though Orangatango is making all of the requests. Maybe it's not a unique idea, but they have implemented it extremely well.

Yeah, I know that I have to give them my credit card and that makes my connection ultimately traceable through one means or another, but it's a far cry better than surfing directly through my ISP.

They have additional benefits other than just the anonymization as well. It really is "the web on your terms" as Orangatango claims. They're worth a look! Check them out.

Before you ask, I'll answer that no, I am not affiliated with Orangatango. The only reason that I know about them is that I applied for a development position at Orangatango a year ago. I've kept my eye on them (as well as my browser pointed at them) ever since.

When I went to college in fall of 2000, I decided to get a part-time job. I had worked for the previous year doing contract programming at a large chip company, and I had started my own small online (and profitable) business. However, I had just moved to a different city, and I didn't really know anyone who could get me a tech job.

I decided that an online search just might do the trick. Monster.com yielded nothing interesting, nor did HotJobs. As I was walking home from class one day I saw a billboard ad for FlipDog, and decided to try it.

After a quick and easy search focused down very specifically by city and job category, I found about four relevant jobs within three miles of my home. After a bit of resume touch-up, I e-mailed my resume to the interesting-looking employers. I received two e-mails back, one with an interview offer. I called the company and scheduled it for the next day.

In short, I had a job three days after my search on FlipDog.

As an aside to the story, FlipDog has some very cool technology developed at WhizBang! Labs. WhizBang! was headquartered in the same city that I attended school, and I got to go to a lecture about them. They have their web spiders crawl the web looking for job listings on companies' own sites. Then they use machine learning software to recognize and extract information (job title, location, description, etc.) from the free-form web page. That gets dumped into a database that FlipDog uses to help you find a job. Instead of making employers post available jobs on a special job site, FlipDog goes to the employers' own web sites and extracts job postings. Very cool. Check it out. (No, I'm not affiliated with them, except that they helped me find a job.)

Alternatives to Zero Knowledge include

Anonymizer,
Rewebber,
Siegesoft, and
Orangatango.

(shameless plug, but very relevant)

Orangatango, the company I work for, is working on web mobility and privacy. We've built a web browser that you can log into from anywhere on the internet. You then have access to all of your bookmarks, your cookies, and other settings. (It's free.)

Some of the features we provide:

• Anonymous surfing (ala SafeWeb or Anonymizer)
• Very, very cool spam protection that really works
• Anonymous e-mail (check out my e-mail address above)
• Web mobility (your settings, including bookmarks, follow you)
• Cookie management (and selective blocking)

Although I work for Orangatango, I am posting this becuase the VirtualBrowser is so cool. It's fun to work on it, and we almost exclusively use open source products (Apache, mod_perl, Linux, etc). Our developers have even made open source contributions themselves.

If you're interested in privacy, anonymity, encrypted surfing, mobility, or spam prevention, I'd urge you to come on over and try us out (it's free).

(shameless plug, but very relevant)

Orangatango, the company I work for, is working on web mobility and privacy. We've built a web browser that you can log into from anywhere on the internet. You then have access to all of your bookmarks, your cookies, and other settings. (It's free.)

Some of the features we provide:

• Anonymous surfing (ala SafeWeb or Anonymizer)
• Very, very cool spam protection that really works
• Anonymous e-mail (check out my e-mail address above)
• Web mobility (your settings, including bookmarks, follow you)
• Cookie management (and selective blocking)

Although I work for Orangatango, I am posting this becuase the VirtualBrowser is so cool. It's fun to work on it, and we almost exclusively use open source products (Apache, mod_perl, Linux, etc). Our developers have even made open source contributions themselves.

If you're interested in privacy, anonymity, encrypted surfing, mobility, or spam prevention, I'd urge you to come on over and try us out (it's free).

If you want a nav-bar, that's why your browser has that little toolbar
at the top of the screen. Or you can implement a floating bar...

I beleive there's a company called
OrangoTango that's working ona product to
do some of these things and more. Browser/Location independant
bookmarks, preferences, etc... available anywhere, from any
browser... there must be more to it if you simply
implement these by making floating js bars.