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I don't think you've really answered my question (I still don't feel like I know why I would want to use this project, anyway). What do you use it for? You've t
by SwellJoe 12y ago
I don't think you've really answered my question (I still don't feel like I know why I would want to use this project, anyway). What do you use it for? You've told me why it's better than other proxies that you would use in the same circumstance that would lead to you using your proxy (which I'm getting the feeling means, "proxies that allow me to access data unavailable directly from where I am, or that allow me to access data more anonymously than I can currently access directly", but nothing like that is mentioned on the front page). So, I believe you that it's easy to setup. Why would I set it up?
I'm not trying to be ornery, and I'm not proxy illiterate, I worked on Squid for a decade, and have built my own toy proxies to test ideas. I'm trying to convince you to make your website more clear about why someone would use your software.
You can't just call it a "proxy" and expect understanding. Even when talking to someone who has deployed 1000+ proxies, you're talking past me. There are a lot of proxies that do many things. What is yours for? What do you want people to do with it? There are caching proxies to make slow links seem faster and use less bandwidth, there are security-oriented proxies that anonymize to one degree or another, there are proxies to allow users to safely tunnel through a firewall in a locked down corporate environment, there are reverse proxies for scaling and accelerating websites, there are proxies for content filtering and access logging used in schools and libraries and such, there are proxies that simulate different network conditions to aid developers, there are proxies for sniffing user data illicitly, there are proxies to allow people in other countries to watch YouTube or Netflix. There are all sorts of proxies. What is yours for?