Heh, when you hover over Uruguay it says Uganda! :)
Ooops, the map had a messed up ISO code. Fixed.
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#22Add https to the beginning and you should be able to see most ecommerce sites, like Amazon.
note: this isn't actually supported officially, but you can have the browser ignore the SSL cert mismatch
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#23Puerto Rico is one of those weird places where I think content gets blocked on accident.
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#24If I enter www.google.com and "open from the Netherlands" I get sent to Google Turkey.
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#25The colors used for the map on the homepage are basically indistinguishable to colorblind folks like myself (the trusted vs. untrusted colors, specifically), just FYI.
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#26Ok... so - this is a web proxy service. Am I missing something here or is this all there is to it?
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#27http://www.hulu.com.prx.us.teleport.to/ fails, I have a blank page.
Might be a bug on my end, but Hulu is generally very good at detecting proxies and VPNs. Will look into it though.
Unfortunately proxying BBC iPlayer[1] doesn't play any video too. Would be great if you could fix it, thanks!
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#28When I went to Facebook.com login page, using the UK proxy, I had a popup for a VPN provider invade the screen. Is this injected by the untrusted server?
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#29For the rest of the countries we rely on publicly availably proxy servers (marked non-truested).
Which organization is running publicly available proxies servers wittingly? Answer: none.
I wouldn't base an application on exploiting mis-configured proxies around the globe.
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#30If I enter www.google.com and "open from the Netherlands" I get sent to Google Turkey.
It worked perfectly for me, weird.