Try2StopMe is essentially a web-based proxy service, which means your web traffic is routed through another computer before being sent to you. This can bypass censorship because so far as the corporate or national firewall can tell all you’re doing is browsing Try2StopMe. This, however, is also the services one weakness: it’s useless as soon as the firewall blocks Try2StopMe itself. So be sure to give this one a spin before your employer or government blocks this one.

Not looking to dodge a firewall? Try2StopMe is always a great way to protect your identity online by obscuring your IP address from all sites you visit through it.

Features:

• Web-based proxy service.
• Bypass restrictive corporate or national firewalls.
• Protect your identity.
• Similar sites: AnonyMouse, CTunnel, Prime Proxies and Unblockall.

Check out Try2StopMe @ www.endscene.net/T2SM (via RedFerret)

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Try2StopMe: Bypass Restrictive Firewalls at Work & School

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• Prime Proxies: Find Proxy Servers That Actually Work
• CTunnel: Unblock Restricted Sites
• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine

Startpage protects your search privacy by establishing a secure-socket layer (SSL) for your browser when connecting to the website server to prevent your ISP from snooping. The search page itself runs through a proxy and only fetches the search results from your queries. Startpage is also configured to let you search images anonymously. Startpage is pretty powerful for an anonymous search engine. You can get accurate search results by using the Universal Power Search to look only for exact words, phrases, or domain names in the web. You can also refine your search as you go along marking them as relevant or not by clicking on the check mark or X mark. Find phone numbers and addresses of people and businesses or find out who called you through StartPages’s Reverse Directory with just their phone number.

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Features:

• Powered by the world’s most private search engine (Ixquick.com)
• Search results are more comprehensive and more accurate
• Search many popular search engines simultaneously and anonymously
• Features include Universal Power Search, global search, and power refinement
• Find phone numbers and addresses worldwide
• Protects privacy by not recording your IP address
• Similar Tools: Yauba and Quiet Agent

Check out StartPage @ www.startpage.com

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Startpage: Free Anonymous Web Surfing Proxy

• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• MakeMeTheKing: Free Temporary Anonymous Email Boxes
• ItsHidden: Use Bittorrent Anonymously
• Zhift: Forum & Message Boards Search Engine

SecretTweet only collects your IP address so you don’t have to worry about divulging your identity. In addition, you don’t need to sign up and register to post your secret tweets. The only catch is that the tweets submitted are moderated and have to be approved.

Features:

• Post secrets to Twitter anonymously.
• View other anonymous tweets and reply anonymously.
• Search tweets using tags.
• Subscribe to tweets using RSS feeds.
• You don’t need a Twitter account to post and view the site.
• ReTweet posts to your Twitter account.
• Similar tools: DeadFake and Postsecret.

Checkout SecretTweet @ www.secrettweet.com

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SecretTweet: Post Secrets to Twitter Anonymously

• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• WebPrivacyCheck: Check Proxy Effectiveness In Hiding Your Identity

Works easy, simply visit the website though your privacy solution and WebPrivacyCheck will show if any personal data (IP, ISP, User Agent… etc) is exposed.

Features:

• Check the effectiveness of an anonymous proxy server.
• Shows if any personal data is exposed and can be collected by a third party.
• Free, easy to use, no sign up needed.
• Similar tools: CheckMyTorrentIP.

Check out WebPrivacyCheck @ http://ipinfo.info/html/privacy-check.php

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WebPrivacyCheck: Check Proxy Effectiveness In Hiding Your Identity

• Vanishd: Hide your Web Surfing from Prying Eyes of Co-workers
• Try2StopMe: Bypass Restrictive Firewalls at Work & School
• Prime Proxies: Find Proxy Servers That Actually Work
• AnonyMouse: Surf The Web Anonymously
• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine

Features

• Fast and reliable with over 4 Gigabits of dedicated bandwidth.
• Total Privacy assured. They would keep no records of your surfing.
• No need to download any software.
• 128 Bit Secure Connection to ensure privacy over all networks.
• Free to register.

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Check out ItsHidden @ www.itshidden.com [via Torrentfreak] (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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ItsHidden: Use Bittorrent Anonymously

• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• Startpage: Free Anonymous Web Surfing Proxy
• ShowRSS: Get BitTorrent RSS Feeds For TV Shows
• Qtorrents: Search Multiple Torrent Sites

Sending email is straightforward. Enter recipient’s email, type in your message and click on the “Send Message” button. That’s it!

Features:

• Anonymous email sender.
• Send as many emails as you like.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar websites: DeadFake.

Check out Send-Email @ www.send-email.org

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Send-Email: Send Free Anonymous Email

• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• StopForwarding: Ask Friends to Stop Spamming your Email
• noSPM: Send Anonymous Email Messages
• NiceCitric: Delivers Hard To Tell Messages Anonymously
• MakeMeTheKing: Free Temporary Anonymous Email Boxes

If some website is asking for your email to send you a one-time newsletter or some offer etc., just give them any random email address (ex: receive-newsletter-may19-2009@dodgit.com) And then come back later to Dodgit and check for all the emails sent to that particular address.

The down side of this is that anyone who knows or guesses your temporary username can access your emails. So make sure to pick the something only you would know. You can check your emails from the website or through the RSS feed.

Features:

• Get an instant disposable inbox to receive emails.
• No need for to choose username, password or remember a unique URL
• Check emails for any username.
• Access your emails from the website or via RSS feed.

Check out Dodgit @ www.dodgit.com

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Dodgit: Instant Disposable Inbox

• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• StopForwarding: Ask Friends to Stop Spamming your Email
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• MakeMeTheKing: Free Temporary Anonymous Email Boxes

It’s easy, fast and straightforward. Just enter the website URL into the field and click “Surf anonymously”.

Features:

• Surf the web anonymously without leaving any personally identifiable information about yourself.
• Bypass filters in your school or work place to get access to restricted websites.
• Similar sites: CTunne, Prime Proxies and Unblockall.

Check out Anonymouse @ www.anonymouse.org

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AnonyMouse: Surf The Web Anonymously

• Try2StopMe: Bypass Restrictive Firewalls at Work & School
• WebPrivacyCheck: Check Proxy Effectiveness In Hiding Your Identity
• Prime Proxies: Find Proxy Servers That Actually Work
• CTunnel: Unblock Restricted Sites
• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine

Using it you can search the whole Internet or search only mainstream news, images, PDF files, social networks, videos and more. Refine results by keywords or by domain. Click on results to visit external sites directly or click the green “Visit anonymously” link to browse them anonymously through Yauba’s proxy servers.

Features:

• Provides you with anonymous searching.
• No user records are stored on the servers, all information is deleted.
• Search the whole Internet or search only blogs, images, PDF files, social networks etc.
• Visit external sites anonymously through Yauba’s proxy servers.
• Similar tools: CTunnel and Prime Proxies.

Check out Yauba @ www.yauba.com (via Orangelinks)

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Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine

• Startpage: Free Anonymous Web Surfing Proxy
• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• MakeMeTheKing: Free Temporary Anonymous Email Boxes
• ItsHidden: Use Bittorrent Anonymously
• Zhift: Forum & Message Boards Search Engine

TemporaryInbox offers two ways to protect your email from spam. First, it gives you temporary inbox email accounts that can be used for suspicious sites ande delted at any time. Additionally, there are temporary forwarding accounts that merely redirect incoming email to your real address.

1) Temporary inbox for incoming mail

You can get a temporary email address right from the main page (see picture below). It works the same way as any usual email address and can be used anywhere. The only difference is that all incoming emails to this address are deleted automatically after 6 hours. To check for incoming mails just enter your temporary address into provided field and click “Go”. There is also a Firefox browser add-on that lets you check your temporary inbox right from the browser toolbar.

2) Temporary forwarding

Forwarding account lets you create an email that forwards all of your incoming emails to your real email address. This account can be easily deleted at any time.

Features:

• Protect your private email from spam by using disposable email accounts
• 2 types of accounts available: temporary inbox email and temporary forwarding.
• Download the Firefox browser plugin to access temporary inbox right from the browser toolbar.
• No registration needed.
• Similar websites: MakeMeTheKing, MeltMail and TempInBox.

Check out TemporaryInbox @ www.temporaryinbox.com

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TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding

• MakeMeTheKing: Free Temporary Anonymous Email Boxes
• Dodgit: Instant Disposable Inbox
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• StopForwarding: Ask Friends to Stop Spamming your Email
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail

To send anonymous message, simply visit the site, pick a statement from a wide variety of pre-written “thought bubbles” and send that message to recipient’s email address. That easy.

Features:

• Anonymously express uncomfortable and embarrassing things to others.
• Select a message from wide variety of pre-written “thought bubbles”.
• Send as many messages as you like.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar websites: StopForwarding and Annoying Coworker.

Check out NiceCitric @ www.nicecritic.com (via lifehacker.com)

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NiceCitric: Delivers Hard To Tell Messages Anonymously

• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• StopForwarding: Ask Friends to Stop Spamming your Email
• Send-Email: Send Free Anonymous Email
• noSPM: Send Anonymous Email Messages
• MakeMeTheKing: Free Temporary Anonymous Email Boxes

The registration is not required, however registered users are also able to track sent messages in their account.

• Anonymous mailer.
• Send as many emails as you like.
• No registration necessary
• More features are to be added in the future.

Check out noSPM @ www.noSPM.org

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noSPM: Send Anonymous Email Messages

• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• StopForwarding: Ask Friends to Stop Spamming your Email
• Send-Email: Send Free Anonymous Email
• NiceCitric: Delivers Hard To Tell Messages Anonymously
• MakeMeTheKing: Free Temporary Anonymous Email Boxes

To create your temorary email account all you have to do is to send email to an anything@makemetheking.com email address of your choice, and the anything here can be anything at all. You don’t need to create any account, no logins, nothing at all. Just send an email to that email address and you are done.

Next up, go to MakeMeTheKing.com and check your inbox.

And you will find your emails. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds for your inbox to stay updated about your incoming mails.

Features:

• Anonymous and Temporary email addresses
• No sign ups, No accounts required.
• Anonymous mailboxes can be created on the fly.
• Subscribe to Feeds for your anonymous mailbox and be notified of incoming mails.
• Completely free service.
• Also get temporary email with Yopmail, Mintemail, FilzMail, 10MinuteMail and Gishpuppy.

Check Out @ MakeMeTheKing.com (Contributed by Kinshuk Sunil from kinshuksunil.com)

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MakeMeTheKing: Free Temporary Anonymous Email Boxes

• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• Dodgit: Instant Disposable Inbox
• DestructingMessage: Send Emails that Self-Destruct
• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
• Vanish: Protect Sensitive Data with Self-destructing Messages

Features:

• Anonymously and politely ask your friend to stop spamming your inbox.
• Send as many emails as you like.
• No sign up or registration needed.

Check out the sample email below

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StopForwarding: Ask Friends to Stop Spamming your Email

• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• Dodgit: Instant Disposable Inbox
• Verify-eMail : Check Suspicious eMails. Real or Not.
• TinyMail: Protect your Email Address from Spam
• TheHTMLEncoder: Hide Email Address from Spam Bots

Simply moving the mouse off the browser window or right-clicking quickly hides the viewing window back leaving only the cover page. The cover page can be any website you want, you can even set it to show an office document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.). Check it out below …

Features:

• Browse any webpage through a small custom-sized window on other page or office document.
• Customize Window: adjust window size, blend it with a cover page, etc.
• Premium account with additional features available as well.

Watch the Vanishd demo video below

Check out Vanishd @ www.vanishd.com

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Vanishd: Hide your Web Surfing from Prying Eyes of Co-workers

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