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'Hide your IP address' option can get you blocked from many web sites #3

Open sysfu opened 8 years ago

sysfu commented 8 years ago

Just be aware that if you start running into a lot of problems accessing certain web sites, the 'Hide your IP address' option might be the culprit as it get you blocked from many websites which have blacklisted the proxy IP address being used.

I noticed that when I had this feature enabled and then visited https://whoer.net, it appeared that I was using an IPredator proxy IP address located in Liberia to access websites. The resulting blacklisting of my apparent web surfing IP by some sites was especially problematic when I wanted to click through links on email newsletters either to visit a link or try to manage my subscription settings.

Once I was blocked by a web site while trying to access it with that feature enabled, the same web site refused to allow me access even after disabling it.

ameshkov commented 8 years ago

This is likely to be caused by the hardcoded IP we use (which belongs to one of the TOR nodes).

ameshkov commented 8 years ago

In AG for Windows we'll soon allow user to set any IP there.

The same will be done in browser extension when we finally add stealth mode feature to https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardBrowserExtension