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Ask Slashdot: Trustworthy Proxy Services?

Posted by Soulskill on from the carrier-pigeons-are-reliable dept.

gusoline writes "Since I'm now living in Brazil (originally from the U.S.), I'm looking for a reliable, trustworthy proxy service I can use to both access services I've used for a long time (Pandora, Netflix, etc.) and services I want to try out (Spotify). Since I'm not looking for illegal downloads or to hide what I'm doing, I'm less concerned about anonymity than I am about region restrictions, reliability, latency, and security of passwords and traffic through their network. I'm OK paying for services that deliver what I want (including the Proxy service itself). Any suggestions from the Slashdot crowd?"

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  1. Profit by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1) Buy cheap US VPS
    2) Set it up yourself so you know exactly what is being logged
    3) Profit.

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    Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
    1. Re:Profit by nzac · · Score: 5, Informative

      Go to http://www.lowendbox.com/ 20 dollars is a rip-off. For just a proxy you should be able to get away with bugger all RAM and storage. Transfer speed might be a bit slow though 10Mbps wont cut it for streaming.

  2. Incorporate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Welcome to the 21st century, where corporations are allowed to globalize -- but not people!

  3. Anonymizer by bahamat · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm biased because I'm the senior systems engineer at Anonymizer, but I recommend us.

    Anonymizer Universal is an IPSEC/L2TP VPN, support for Windows, Mac OS X and iOS (we don't support Android, but it works. We don't supply instructions because Android is a moving target).
    Total Net Shield is SSH tunneling+Apache proxy. Supports anything with an SSH client.
    Take your pick. In either case we don't log traffic.

    Traffic egress is from the U.S. and your IP address changes every day.