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You may have noticed that some tested proxies don’t work for you. Hopefully, you've noticed mine are more reliable than most. Something I leant a while ago might help to explain this.

The odd things about socks proxies is, they don’t work equally from every entry point. Some will work for you and not for me. In order to identify the ones that work for most people, you have to check them from more than one place and the more places the better.

Obviously, I don’t have time to check from all 196 countries (yes I'm counting Taiwan) but I do check every list from three separate locations. Most proxy finders don’t bother to do this, because they’re exposing working proxies to have them closed.

Reading http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/doubts-cast-on-us-govt-prism-snooping-program-50011444/

If targeted ads worked exactly the way they're sold, we'd all love 'em to death. We'd only see ads we liked and all data tracking would be opt in. We'd be told exactly what we were giving away and we'd have unlimited access to our own data. We could specify what sort of ads we wanted to see and get to find out exactly how much they earned the collector and its affiliates

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Not far from where we lived, there was a public footpath, bordering an orchard and when we were about 11 a few of us would climb the fence and sit in the orchard eating the apples. We rarely took any with us, because we were in no hurry. The orchard was surrounded by open fields and obviously many miles from whoever owned it. We lay in the orchard eating and socialising. As time went by our little group dwindled, moving on to secondary school and beyond. None of us ever went back to the orchard. It was never about the Apples. It was about the sharing.

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