NetShade is an app that lets you browse the Internet anonymously.

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NetShade is an app that lets you browse the Internet anonymously. It can direct your web traffic through a public proxy or a NetShade traffic so that other users on the Internet don't know what your real IP is.

This app finds public proxies automatically, so you don't have to do anything but to tell it to which one you want to connect.

The main window has three buttons that establish how you connect to the Internet: "Direct Connection", "Public Proxy" and "NetShade Proxy". Direct Connection means that your connection isn't using a proxy. Your IP address is easily visible and your activity can be viewed and tracked. Public Proxy routes your traffic through a public proxy found by the app. It starts looking for proxies as soon as it starts and it displays a comprehensive list of all the proxies found at the bottom of the screen, along with the port used, ping and how secure it is. When you activate one of those proxies, NetShade will change your system proxy to that one. You can verify that you are indeed behind that proxy by clicking on "Verify", which will open a website that will tell you your IP address.

In my testing, I couldn't connect to a single US proxy. This is probably because those are the most wanted ones. I connected to proxies in other countries just fine.

Pros

  • It works well
  • It finds proxies automatically

Cons

  • Most US servers didn't work
This program received 1 award
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Specifications
Developer:
Rayner Software LLC.
License type:
Shareware
Comments
Harry F - MBPro 12 years ago

Sunday 02 October 2011 - all NetShade servers are down (as of 13:00 GMT), confirmed through NS Proxy Server Status page http://www.raynersw.com/netshade/serverstatus.php No updates or info provided by NS or Rayner Software. Info and updates much needed. Please use #RaynerSoftware #NetShade tags

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