Ip Anonymizers

@dawnald (85146)
Shingle Springs, California
October 27, 2008 6:29pm CST
Has anybody here had reason to use an IP anonymizer to get into a website without the site being able to pick up on your real IP address? If so, for what purpose? To fool the watchdogs at work? Or to get into a site you've been banned on? Or what?
1 person likes this
5 responses
@merge8 (73)
• Canada
28 Oct 08
ive used proxy servers. it was back in the day when i was in highschool... the school would block all the fun things on the internet so then i would go on a proxy to bypass the block.
2 people like this
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Oct 08
Did they ever get smart and figure it out? My work catches on to that stuff pretty quickly, can only use them for a short while and then they're blocked. The site I'm going on isn't so smart though. (evil grin)
1 person likes this
@merge8 (73)
• Canada
29 Oct 08
We would find new proxy sites.. or even create our own.. it was so easy to, you just had to host a server on your home computer and then host a website... with the proxy script on it.. and then when you go to school and use the site theres no way that its blocked because you just created it ;)
2 people like this
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
29 Oct 08
lol
1 person likes this
@adihindu (1922)
• India
29 Oct 08
I had used IP anonymizer once for getting into a site in which my IP already registered with them. Most of the persons who have static IP, they need to use this tool for the IP masking. But using these softwares means sending our personal information to third party. When I got dynamic IP, then I stopped using them as I can change my IP at any time.
2 people like this
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
29 Oct 08
Makes sense. There was one site I had signed up on and my husband wanted to but he couldn't because of the IP.
1 person likes this
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
1 Nov 08
I had to use an IP anonymizer because at work they installed a filter on the network. I was told to use an IP anonymizer to check if I could log in a particular website and i tried it out. © ronaldinu 2008
1 person likes this
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
1 Nov 08
They make it very hard for me at work. I have to backtab and try again multiple times. Pain. Oh well...
• India
28 Oct 08
Yes I have used. But there has been no particular reasons apart from being just curious. we have dynamic ip here. so ip blocking is a small isssue in here. But I did it just get to know the system.
1 person likes this
@philjas (1134)
• United States
28 Oct 08
I had a peculiar reason to use one once. I signed up for a autoresponder, and I tried to test it. No matter how many times I tried with a few different addresses I have the test messages wouldn't get through. It finally hit me that maybe they reason it wasn't working is because I'm signing up through the same IP address as my original one that I signed up for the autoresponder with. So I tried a proxy server, signed up, and sure enough, the test message came through. If I ever needed to test new messages I put in there I had to go through that. It was particularly annoying because I was paying for that autoresponder. I ended up switching to a free one that doesn't have that problem!
2 people like this
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Oct 08
That would be annoying! Glad you figured it out!
1 person likes this