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Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world
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Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world
#42For 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.
Yes, this is openly addressed in "How it works".
Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world
#43Sorry for the tough question, but what make your servers trusted by me? Why should I trust you? With trust I mean I can safely browse without worries about traffic data collecting, password stealing and so on , do you mean the same too?
More like trusted by Teleport. Whether you trust Teleport is up to you. While I promise I won't steal your passwords it's really the best I (or anyone serving as a proxy) can do. If you want a "trustless" channel, the only options are SSL over VPN or SSL over Tor, but you still have trust the CA and browser vendor.
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#44When 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?
No, those ads are mine. Although they were supposed to be disabled.
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#45The colors used for the map on the homepage are basically indistinguishable to colorblind folks like myself (the trusted vs. untrusted colors, specifically), just FYI.
Got it, will fix.
Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world
#46If I enter www.google.com and "open from the Netherlands" I get sent to Google Turkey.
The servers used in this case are definitely in the Netherlands. However what seems to be happening is they are used a lot by people from Turkey (they are shared with another popular web proxy) and Google learned this somehow from some implicit signals.
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#47I tried https://fluxcards.de/home from Iran and got an error page. You should at least communicate if that error page is you not finding a proxy in Iran (as I guess from looking at the list of "available" proxies that are all offline) or if that is indeed a blocking of my site for Iranian users. My developer is in Iran and he would have told me if our project was blocked. Also I know that Iran shows some funny Qur'an…
Yup, on it, thanks for the heads up.
Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world
#48As a color blind person, I could not tell any difference between trusted proxies and un-trusted proxies.
Thanks, duly noted.
Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world
#49It looks like all URLs in plain text on the page are being rewritten (eg. from Amazon.com to Amazon.com.prx.uk.teleport.to). URLs in fields are not, but only if they point off the domain you're visiting.
It's certainly not the intended behavior, but it's not a surprising bug either. The rewrite was surprisingly tough to make work even most of the time. But if you could share the specific site this happened on, I will likely be able to fix it.
Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world
#50Add 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
Unfortunately it's not as simple as that. You can instruct the browser to ignore an invalid cert for the site in address bar, but all background requests (images, scripts, ajax, etc.) to different domains made via https will still be silently blocked.