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There are multiple ways to hide your IP for free: Public proxies, VPNs which are not so well-known, and lastly there is a wealth of browser extensions which aim
by heipei 9y ago
There are multiple ways to hide your IP for free: Public proxies, VPNs which are not so well-known, and lastly there is a wealth of browser extensions which aim at hiding your IP to some extent. This would be one example where your traffic will exit with actual users on consumer ISP lines: http://hola.org/ http://hola.org/
- ant6n 9y agoWhat about tor.
- heipei 9y agoTOR is an easy one to detect. Case in point: Try to browse the web with TOR and see how many CloudFlare captchas you have to solve in the first 10 minutes ;) Also TOR has public lists of exit nodes (https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/), and unless you exit via a non-listed one you're trivially identifiable. Lastly, TOR is rather slow, which prohibits using for large-scale scraping tasks. Plus you get switched around different exits and countries, which might break your scraping logic.
- crtasm 9y agoI believe you could use the ExitNodes option to only use a specific exit. There's no such thing as an unlisted exit node, only unlisted entry nodes (bridges). I agree that Tor isn't a good choice for scraping.
- dsacco 9y agoTor would introduce pretty intolerable latency into a professional data crawling setup.
- ficklepickle 9y agoI'd say don't use Hola. They've had some issues, like selling their users bandwidth for botnets[1]. If you do some googling, you will see many reasons not to use that extension. [1]http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/29/8685251/hola-vpn-botnet-selling-users-bandwidth http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/29/8685251/hola-vpn-botnet-se...