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What Is A Proxy?
There are two types of proxies, a regular proxy or a transparent proxy. A regular proxy is one that you do setup/connect to intentionally for various reasons. Monitoring traffic at the office, caching traffic for speed, blocking sites at home..etc.
A transparent proxy on the other hand, also known as a forced or intercepting proxy, is a middle man system deployed by your ISP. It is referred to as ‘transparent’ because the client is unaware of its existence. A transparent proxy acts as an intermediary between you and a website you want to visit. While you are connecting to that website, the proxy intercepts the connection, before passing it to the website. This does put your data privacy and online behaviour in jeopardy. Read on below to learn more. Some list of issues with transparent proxies are :
- Censorship of the Internet. I.e. you can not connect to sites that are deemed inappropriate. Think family filter for adult content. Or government censorship on sites that are not pro-government “China, UAE, Iran etc”
- Logging your online behaviour. What sites you access, at what times and how long you spend on those sites.
- Eavesdropping on your traffic. If you are not using encryption during your access of a particular website or application, the content of your traffic is exposed to the ISP. This can go all the way from intimate photos to a comment on a forum.
- Throttling your speed, a transparent proxy can limit the number of bytes you can download or upload.
Transparent Proxy Detection Tool
How to Detect Transparent Proxies?
We have thought a lot and tested ever more methods. We came up with a tool that does check for proxies in more different ways that any other proxy test tool online. You can use our unique proxy identification the tool above to detect whether your ISP is using transparent proxies or not. This tools also checks for :
- The usage of a banned IP listed as dangerous “If you see this message it is highly likely that you have malware or spyware on your device”. We cross check across various online blacklists.If this one comes up, your traffic is most likely hijacked for malicious purposes.
- Botnets , if you see this it means that your device is being used to trigger DDOS “large scale attacks” on the Internet. Basically a botnet uses infected devices as a swarm that is used to attack sites and services. These botnets are available for rent. You can be part of a botnet due to various reasons, from clicking on a fishy link to installing malware infected apps.
- Check if you are behind known online proxies, this is different from a transparent proxy your ISP might use. If this result comes up your proxy check it means one of the following :
- You are actively and on purpose using an online proxy. You might be doing that to hide your real IP or access geo blocked content. The danger here is that you cant really trust your online information to a proxy that is run by someone you dont know. After all running a public proxy for free is expensive, so the income for those proxies is probably selling whatever info they can gather about you while you are using their services.
- You are not aware that you are using a public proxy. That suggests again that your device is infected with malware or spyware and the traffic is being proxied for malicious purposes. Apart from trying to steal personal information
- Tor detection : The Tor network does provide some sort of anonymity and protection against snooping eyes. This tools does detect tor nodes. If this comes up try to change your tor node if that is an option.
- VPN detection: A lot of sites these days do use VPN/proxy detection techniques to to identify VPN providers. This is normally done to block users using VPN from accessing these sites or from bypassing geolocation blocks. If our tool does not detect a VPN it suggests that the sites in question here wont detect that VPN as well.
Are there any are the benefits to a transparent proxy ?
At it’s best. Internet service providers mainly deploy transparent proxies with the aim of providing faster data transfer through caching. This is outweighed by the disadvantages below “I am repeating some points, I cant emphasize how bad transparent proxies are”
- The ISP detects and caches all your DNS queries. This means that the ISP knows about every site you visited.
- The ISP caches your traffic. This means that the ISP knows about the sites you visited and which pages you accessed.
- The ISP stores sensitive data. Depending on how aggressive the caching is, the proxy can cache personal images, emails, passwords..etc.
- The ISP can censor websites. Everybody wants full access to the Internet. However ISPs using a proxy service can block websites based on whatever criteria they chose.
Can I Bypass Transparent Proxy?
If your ISP is using transparent proxies, you might want to contact them and ask them to route you outside it. If the ISP does agree, you can test the result using our proxy check tool. A lot of ISPs tend to refuse such requests, however, stating technicalities as the reason. Your other option is to bypass a transparent proxy by using a VPN. A VPN connection allows you to encrypt all of your traffic which will then no longer go through the ISP’s proxies.
How to Bypass Transparent Proxies Using VPN
The main benefits of a VPN are :
- Encrypt your traffic
- Bypass any proxies. Thus preventing censorships, bans and eavesdropping.
- Preventing transparent proxy speed throttling
- Change your geolocation and hiding your identity and address. The added benefit here is that you now can access geo-restricted content from sites that have license restrictions. Think “BBC IPlayer outside UK as an example”
You can read more about VPNs here. Enabling VPN for your traffic is a relatively easy process.
This is how you establish a VPN connection:
- First, sign up with a VPN service. If you’re looking for a credible provider, go for ExpressVPN.
- After that, get download the VPN app and install it on your device. You’ll find apps available on Android, iOS, PC, and Mac, Amazon firestick and more. If your deivce does not support native VPN or there is no VPN app for your device you can still enable VPN for your devices through your router.
- Once installed, sign in with your VPN credentials and check the server list.
- Connect to any server you prefer.
- Once the connection takes place, refresh the page, and check the Proxy Tool above.
- You’ll notice that all the proxy checks are under (Success).
If you want the process to go smoothly, make sure you try a VPN provider that has proper apps and support. . In the table below, you’ll find the top VPNs reliable for the job. We chose those VPNs based on rigorous process. We do test hundreds of VPN providers regularly to come up with the shortlist.
- 30-Day Money-back Guarantee
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In short
The Internet is growing day by day, so is the number of people trying to exploit your privacy and hijack your traffic, there is a lot of money to be made doing so. I did mention various method of doing so. From ISP monitoring to government censoring all the way to your traffic being hijacked. You might say you have nothing to hide, note here though that your online behaviour does mirror your physical presence. Your chat, intimate photos and all kinds of other information can be monitored, think of it as your house being full of CCTV cameras that are monitored 24/7. It is up to you to decide whether you want an added layer of protection or not. If you have more questions leave a comment below.
I’m trying to hook my ruko back up, it lost the connection and I’m having trouble with it finding my router for some reason.
Hi
I can’t get TV2.dk play. I have all 3 green, and have troubleshot. I have checked the IP on my router, and i get the message “unlocator error”. Can i have some support please ?
Hello
I get everywhere my IP . I get Tor detected Test #6 and Test #2 to #5 i get my ip address. #1 i get success.
What does this mean?
Can you help me to find out the ip of this proxy?
PN please.
Best
What do you use to check #6? I’m coming from home, no proxy, no VPN, no Tor. Tor’s exit list doesn’t include my IP.
The result says “A Proxy, VPN IP or TOR exit Node was detected. Your real IP address is hidden. For more info, leave a comment below.”
Please provide more info, as you promised.
Good, no proxy detected with test,
DNS changer.
seems I am in California, wahahaha!
from Russia with Love,
Lucy.
Hello, I got these results:
Successful
Time out
Time out
Time out
Time out
No proxy detected
What does this mean and how do I fix it?
Hi Tibo. It seems there was some technical issue when you performed the test. Please give it another try now.
Hello I got this result
I use local cablenet for internet which is connected to rounter by LAN (RJ45) cable.
Check 1Success
Check 227.106.7.126
Check 327.106.7.126
Check 427.106.7.126
Check 527.106.7.126
Check 6Proxy/VPN/TOR Detected
The problem is I have Linux Mint 17 XFCE and also Mint 18 Cinnamon, and I cannot use apt-get update to update my distro. GPG key with Inrelease is not getting updated. How can this problem be solved.
Is there a description of what each test does? In my case, check 1 was “Success,” whereas checks 2 – 5 listed a different IP address than the one listed as “My IP Address” at the top. In addition, the different IP address listed in the steps is in a tracert I ran, whereas the “My IP Address” is not (the tracert hops through a few routers on my internal network at the beginning, so my public IP should be in there somewhere). Am I correct in assuming that the “My IP Address” listed is the transparent proxy?
I only failed in 6th test what is this test.any name of it.
Hi,
At the end of several checking, 1st test result was “success”, last one was “no proxy detected”, 4th one was always “timeout” and the rest were my IP Address. Any reason for time out? Thanks in advance.
Hi Osan,
This series of checks, try to detect any traces of a proxy in your web requests. The final result uses an algorithm to aggregate all the above. If it’s success, then you can be sure that your requests do not pass through any proxy.
hello admin i am using expressvpn.i will check proxy detect.the message is”A Proxy, VPN IP or TOR exit Node was detected”.how to solve the message is showing “no proxy or vpn/tor detect” using express vpn.what can i do?please answer me
Hi
It means that the server you are using has an IP that is known to be a hosted server, try another server please.
What’s my IP address ?
I ran the “Check proxy” and the results are as follows:
6. Possible proxy
5.>2. VPN IP Address
1. Success
Can somebody tell me what those results mean to a layman?
The test detected a possible Proxy, VPN or TOR exit node. This means that, at the time of the test, you were -either knowingly or unknowingly- connected through one of these technologies.
Check this IP 113.210.201.178
What do you mean?
I am Confirming active to verify my new IP address NOW
I’m not sure how we can help.
This is not my ip adress. How do I find oit the name of both