TYRAYNER NetShade's database of public proxies has improved over the years, though you're right that the public proxies are not always reliable. The NetShade proxy (available to paying users) is very reliable and fast, and fully anonymous. NetShade isn't in any way affiliated with Apple, aside from the fact that it runs on Macs. :) My motivation for writing it about 4 years ago was the new trend of telecom and Internet companies handing people's records over to governments of the world without any warrants or just cause. That trend is as strong today as ever, and I'm against it. So that was the motivation... I'm not secretly mining any data about people on my servers... that's not interesting to me and I don't want that kind of bad karma. :)
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