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Show HN: AnonySurfer.com – Distributed anonymous web/HTTP proxy and VPN

31 points by alexS 12y ago

techload 12y ago
I tested on a pretty normal website and was greeted by this warning: "You must subscribe to surf this kind of content! Note, we block pornography. You must subscribe to surf. ".
- alexS 12y ago
  thanks for reporting -- i've weakened the javascript a bit on that front. what site did you visit?
  - deleted 12y ago
    [deleted]
  - tokenizerrr 12y ago
    You seem to simply be scanning the DOM for keywords. The first site I happened to try contained the word "gay" in one of the headlines, and surely enough http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay is also blocked. Doing this on the client side through javascript seems hopeless btw.
alexS 12y ago
https://join.me/665-651-418 https://join.me/665-651-418
- pritambaral 12y ago
  What this^ is: A flash widget with a VNC view into a Windows computer running Chrome with the Google Analytics page of anonysurfer.com open
yc1010 12y ago
Good site tho you might get in trouble over the anonymous mailer functionality and endup with ips being blacklisted or your service being kicked of from Digital Ocean which you seem to use.
- yc1010 12y ago
  ...on further thinking might be a good idea to remove it altogether The site is a proxy (and a good one it seems) trying to include this anonymous mailer seems like a bolted unrelated feature that does not improve the main service and could if anything harm it Starting off young programmers make mistakes of just because they can do something they should code it :) but its often best to step back and ask "what is the aim of X and how does it improve Y". Example: web developers adding scrolling text and flash intro pages to sites in 90s/early 00s, not because it was needed (quite the opposite from usability point of view) but because "they just could"
jcr 12y ago
alexS, I spotted what might be a trivial bug (or could be a feature ;-) but instead of posting it here, I decided to email it to your founders<at>anonysurfer.com address just to be safe.
Nyr 12y ago
Sorry to break your bubble, but you are not going to last. Man, you are selling PPTP VPN on a $14/year VPS... and no, RamNode will not let you run public proxies either. Nor will do Atlantic.net in your $1/month VPS. Nice try, but... no.
aiaf 12y ago
Web-based proxies are not anonymous. Specifically, Javascript proxification is lacking in all of them, and your IP address will leak one way or the other.

31 points by alexS 12y ago

I tested on a pretty normal website and was greeted by this warning: "You must subscribe to surf this kind of content! Note, we block pornography. You must subscribe to surf. ".

alexS 12y ago
thanks for reporting -- i've weakened the javascript a bit on that front. what site did you visit?
- deleted 12y ago
  [deleted]
- tokenizerrr 12y ago
  You seem to simply be scanning the DOM for keywords. The first site I happened to try contained the word "gay" in one of the headlines, and surely enough http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay is also blocked. Doing this on the client side through javascript seems hopeless btw.

alexS 12y ago

https://join.me/665-651-418 https://join.me/665-651-418

pritambaral 12y ago
What this^ is: A flash widget with a VNC view into a Windows computer running Chrome with the Google Analytics page of anonysurfer.com open

yc1010 12y ago

Good site tho you might get in trouble over the anonymous mailer functionality and endup with ips being blacklisted or your service being kicked of from Digital Ocean which you seem to use.

yc1010 12y ago
...on further thinking might be a good idea to remove it altogether The site is a proxy (and a good one it seems) trying to include this anonymous mailer seems like a bolted unrelated feature that does not improve the main service and could if anything harm it Starting off young programmers make mistakes of just because they can do something they should code it :) but its often best to step back and ask "what is the aim of X and how does it improve Y". Example: web developers adding scrolling text and flash intro pages to sites in 90s/early 00s, not because it was needed (quite the opposite from usability point of view) but because "they just could"

jcr 12y ago

alexS, I spotted what might be a trivial bug (or could be a feature ;-) but instead of posting it here, I decided to email it to your founders<at>anonysurfer.com address just to be safe.

Nyr 12y ago

Sorry to break your bubble, but you are not going to last. Man, you are selling PPTP VPN on a $14/year VPS... and no, RamNode will not let you run public proxies either. Nor will do Atlantic.net in your $1/month VPS. Nice try, but... no.

aiaf 12y ago

Web-based proxies are not anonymous. Specifically, Javascript proxification is lacking in all of them, and your IP address will leak one way or the other.