A Qiestion About Proxy

@ARIES1973 (11426)
Legaspi, Philippines
November 15, 2012 9:21pm CST
I received my weekly update from clixsense but because I have been so busy this past few days, I was not able to open it. But when I cleaned up my inbox this morning, I had a time to read it. It said that I may not access my account using a proxy because if I do I will not be allowed to log in. Actually, I don not understand what a proxy means. I would appreciate if you can be able to explain it to me. I am sometimes using my smartbro stick to log in because I do not have a permanent connection at home. Thank you very much.
4 responses
• India
16 Nov 12
I directly come to the point,,basically people use proxy to hide their identity...I mean I am from India,,,If I use U.S proxy..then clixsense will ask me to enter my security question..This is becausue I registered through indian IP..& may be you don't know clixsense track these things..like your IP address..lots of people do such kind of things because clixsense provide most of the offer & task for the U.S residential's.. Now i come to you..this happened with you because your internet service provider is using proxy..most of the internet providers uses dynamic IP.,,any provider uses static IP..then such kind of problem occurs..So ask your ISP,,it will better help you to resolve this issue,,one more thing i wanna tell you,,please don't try to login clixsense...otherwise because of this problem they can ban you,,,& please don't try to login any GPT sites as well..Thanks
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@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
16 Nov 12
Hi abhis! Perhaps the message was for everybody. I am using the internet that is being provided by the office. We have a wifi connection. I tried to enter into the search button, if I am using a proxy? Then I got an answer, no proxy detected. Perhaps I have to ask the same question when I use my smartbro stick before I log in to my account in clixsense. Thank you for sharing!
@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
16 Nov 12
Thank you for this information. I have been doing some online work for almost a year yet I do not know about this thing. Proxy particularly. Your response really helped me in one way or another. I have a new learning and I am so glad about it. Maybe I should consider having my own internet line at home. Thank you for sharing! Have a nice day!
• India
16 Nov 12
your welcome friend..as a student of computer science..I am little innovative...So i searched this method because this proxy server error..Do you know I am also using this method for accessing crowdflower task,,
@varier (5685)
• Indonesia
17 Nov 12
Proxy will works as a medium between you and any sites, so you don't access that site directly. It's done for various purpose, mostly for anonymity. As far as I know, all broadband connection, both stick and cable/DSL, doesn't use proxy . But I might be wrong, let me check that later. You can always check whether you are using proxy or not by using various services on net though
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@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
17 Nov 12
Hi varier! I can somehow have a clearer idea of a proxy. Before, when I heard of a proxy, it only means that you have to send somebody if you cannot go to a meeting or an important event. We call it proxy. This time I know a lot of things about it and I am thankful for having these informations which I know are helpful especially on my part who doesn't have a wide knowledge on internet matters. Thank you very much! Have a nice day!
@varier (5685)
• Indonesia
17 Nov 12
Just FYI, every time you have a question regarding IT matters, Wikipedia can be a good friend
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@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
17 Nov 12
Yeah, I keep on researching about the things that I encountered along the way. Thank you for the information. Have a nice day!
@brew2x (3094)
• Philippines
16 Nov 12
I think proxy change your IP address like in our office since we cater North American clients then our IP addresses appear to be that from United States eventhough we are in Asia.
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@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
17 Nov 12
Hi brew! I was able to address the problem already. I searched online how to remove proxy and I was able to do it. It made me worry when I received the email from clixsense several days ago. But I was not prompted during signing in of any problem. Although I don't want it to happen because clixsense is one of my trusted sites. Thank you for sharing!
• India
16 Nov 12
Proxy is used to change the IP address and for privacy.Some sites like clixsense wont allow you to use proxy.Maybe your ISP is using proxy.
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@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
16 Nov 12
Hi muneer! I have shared a while ago that I checked my IP address and I have known that I don't have a proxy server. Now when I got home, I checked again my IP address and found out that a proxy server was detected. It says, Proxy Server detected: WIMIA Test: True. i am using a broadband stick. Now I am sure that a broadband stick does have a proxy. At least from now on I can check first if my connection is using a proxy and then I will not anymore log in to my clixsense account. Thank you for sharing!