How can I prevent my ISP or government from eavesdropping on my online activity? The UK government has just passed the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, commonly known as ‘Snooper’s Charter’. In this guide, I will shed some light on how the...
WhatsApp have finally added a video calling feature to their popular chatting app. This certainly spells bad news for Skype, Facetime, and other similar messenger application. The new feature is available on Android, iPad, iPhone, and Windows Phone devices. In this...
What are the top 5 Netflix alternatives to watch outside USA? Netflix is constantly blocking VPN and Smart DNS proxy services that allow users to change their Netflix region to the USA. Instead, users are now getting the dreaded Netflix proxy...
Chromecast and Roku are both excellent streaming devices. However, unlike other streaming platforms such as Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV, you cannot manually configure network settings directly on Chromecast or Roku. This means that you have to configure Smart DNS...
Bypass School Web Filtering – Use A Proxy You can use a proxy to bypass web filtering proxies. Normally a web proxy at school does intercept all web traffic and sends it through its filters to decide what goes through and...
What is Geo-blocking? Geo-blocking is a way for content providers to restrict access to their services on a geographical basis. This is mainly because of licensing regulations. Every channel or provider pay a huge amount of money to secure the rights...
Smart DNS Proxies, what is that ? Smart DNS Proxies are an alternate solution to VPN used to unblock American content such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, WWE Network and content from other countries. Examples from other countries would be BBC Iplayer...
Transparent Proxy : The Risks Please refer to the illustration above, as you can see you are sending your HTTP web traffic to any given website, your traffic is intercepted by your ISP “a.k.a Internet Provider” and redirected to an ISP...
DNS Hijacking – The terms Domain name : The website name such as www.google.com that is the better known address of the website you would like to visit. IP Address : A numerical address such as 8.8.8.8 which is in essence...
VPN vs Smart DNS Proxy, what to choose. Both solutions can be setup in seconds, and both solutions do have certain advantages. It is up to you to choose which one suits you best. I will describe what differences I found...
