And, how to contact proxy.org ? when I click "Contact Us", the page said "Baron Munchausen is not currently available for comment.", what it meant?
I am getting a layeredtech dedicated server especially for proxies. If anybody needs reliable and stable proxy hosting, Feel free to pm me with your requirements.
You've gotta check out a bolded listing for $20. Its much better than a regular listing. Brings in quite traffic.
If you do enough advertising (preferrably paid) for your proxies, You could be earning $10-20/day just via adsense...
How much time do you spend working on your established proxy sites per day? It seems like its pretty laid back after setting things up. Is this true? It makes running proxy sites sound very risky. This is probably the only reason I might not make one.
I actually didn't find those to be quite worth it. Over a month I only got like 250 referrals from them. For $20, that isn't really a good ROI. It works fine just to submit all your links as normal ones.
this very definitely is true - proxies are a key-tool for any kind of cyber crimes and terrorist organizations attempting to hide. whether you live in USA or anywhere in civilized and peace oriented countries being member of interpol - a proxy owner/operator surely attracts the attention and permanent observation of intelligence and law enforcement agencies as well as the hosting company allowing such questionable activities. there ar billions of honest and constructive methods of earning money by creating value traffic besides proxies that also create far more satisfaction than operating a proxy for the dark side of this world. for truly honest people there is no reasonable need for a proxy at all as long as ppl have the courage to stand up with their true name for whatever they do.
Seriously proxies cant really be used to protect yourself. If you are doing something to catch the attention of the authorities they will be able to get your i.p. address very easily from the logs, only a stupid criminal would think he is safe behind a web based proxy.
Do you have any data to base those statements on? I can assure you that no "hackers" or "terrorists" use a CGI proxy for their activities. That would be just plain stupid. If anything, they use IP based proxies and most likely set up their own in remote locations. As far as the ethics of owning proxy sites....there is a fine line that you can only define for yourself. I don't care if you think it's unethical, because I'm fine with it and that's all that matters when I decide whether or not to run proxy sites. The reason I am fine with it is because looking at my stats, the majority of visitors are either American high school kids or Iranians surfing around the filters. I am 100% okay with this because I despise censorship so I have no problem supplying a means of evading it. In addition, there may be some "hackers" or "terrorists" using our proxies, but if they are, they are a VERY small percentage of the users. And I understand that this isn't the best ethical argument, but if there are hackers, they aren't going to care if we don't have a proxy - they'll just find another. This argument, in my opinion, is valid because they consist of such a small percentage of our users. The bottom line is that proxies are a great way of making a quick buck. The ethical ramifications if any, in my opinion, are very small. And I have no intention of utilizing proxies (even in a buy/sell cycle) in the long term because they simply are not fit for that. But I don't have much money and I need to collect some for startup capital for other projects of mine. Proxies can help me accomplish that goal, and I'm fine with that. If you have any other suggestions as far as an even faster way of making money, don't hesitate to shout out. But at the moment, when I am constricted on both money and time (I have about 2 hours of freetime per day on a good day), proxies are the ideal solution.
I agree with chatmasta. I'm sorry if this is out of line, but he just completely owned your statement.
I have a proxy website, it get 30 visitors perday, and it makes no money. Most of my visitors are from middle east and China. Also I notice that the new filters blocks proxy too. So I no longer can go to websites that I use to be able to go at work.
Try taking "proxy" out of your meta tags - that may unblock it next time. But if it's already blocked, it will probably stay that way. As far as the middle eastern visitors, that should be expected on a proxy. It happens to everyone.
Are there other alternatives besides adsense? I have been banned by them because of invalid clicks when I swear that I didn't do anything wrong. I tried other CPM like globalinteractive but they really don't bring much in. I have about 500uniques/day.
If I put up a really detailed TOS that explictly states that the proxy shouldn't be used for illegal activities, will I still be responsible if it still occured?
You should consult a lawyer about that....it's a complicated matter. But the fact is, if the authorities come knocking, just hand over your logs.
China gov banned a lot of websites(more than 20% of www, I think), like BBC due to chinese people have the risk to be made democracy lesson. But most guys have not make money from proxy.. because of the amount, as me