Visit any website you want (yes, even banned ones!)

I first thought of giving this post the following title: "Freegate - Anonymous surfing", but then I thought the current title applies much better (to the current situation). So there is going to be a ban on porn websites. I have nothing against that (What! then what about this?). But I have a feeling that this isn't going to stop here. Soon they will try to stop Bittorrent and P2P too. This post is not a rebellion, but, well I dont know why I'm actually posting this, but here goes.

Freegate, a Free and Open Source software, is described as "an anti-censorship software for secure and fast Internet access" by its creators. It works as a local proxy, channeling all your HTTP requests through a network of proxies known as Dynaweb. The proxies of this network change their own IP addresses and domain names constantly, so ISPs cannot block the proxy servers themselves indefinitely. Dynaweb monitors the blocking status of all its servers and changes the IP addresses once a blockage is detected, but I think this monitoring is done mostly for routers sending data to China (Dynaweb creator is a Chinese man who dont like the Chinese government!), so blockages by our own dear ISPs might go unnoticed. But still, Dynaweb has far too many servers changing IP addresses far too many times for them to handle (I hope).

Many of you might be familiar with JAP, which is another local proxy software, but I found out that JAP has gone commercial. Of course, there are other great proxy software, like Privoxy, but Freegate is a simple software that can be used by the average computer user. It is only a single .exe file which can be run without any installation, and automatically setups IE to use the proxy when surfing the web. Firefox users will have to manually set the proxy information in the options window (See below picture).

Grab Freegate from http://us.dongtaiwang.com/loc/download_en.php

P.S - If you have a firewall, you need to give freegate access to the internet. Refer to your firewall documentation for this.

P.P.S - Keep tuned for more 'surfing banned sites' tools.