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Safeweb Turns Off Free Service

Posted by timothy on from the no-more-no-more dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Seems like Safeweb was the last one to cancel providing free anonymizing service. Rest in peace, Safeweb, I loved you a lot. With Anonymouse down and Anonymizer.com restricted, are there any free services left for those suffering from corporate oppression?"

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  1. Sweet Irony by yatest5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I totally dig the fact that the submitter of this story was 'anonymous coward'...!

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    • Mod parent up! [a] by Anonymous Coward (Score:5) Thurs, June 31, @13:37
    1. Re:Sweet Irony by yatest5 · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm not sure 'not being allowed to look at donkey porn from work' counts as 'oppressed' ;-).

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      • Mod parent up! [a] by Anonymous Coward (Score:5) Thurs, June 31, @13:37
  2. The solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just wear tinfoil on your head... it totally eliminates the corporate oppression! It really works! I used to be oppressed on a daily basis. But ever since I started where the tin foil hat, people avoid me like the plague! I've even seen people cross the street to avoid walking by me!

    Finally! The power is mine!

  3. Re:Orangatango by stevey · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    That's what us computery people call a Proxy, or Proxy Server ...

  4. Those were the good old days... by DaoudaW · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah yes, I remember an enjoyable evening using anonymizer. Then a few days later I had the chance to look through our server logs and there it was:

    www.anonymizer.com?url=barely18.com
    www.anonymizer.com?url=teenvixens.com
    ...