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How to Hide Your IP Address on iPhone (3 Easy Methods)

My IP Hide has a native iOS version now, so you no longer need a computer to change your iPhone's IP. The app is free to use: 8 free proxy servers, no time or data limit, no account needed. Just install it, tap the connect button, and your browsing goes through one of its private proxy servers — and keeps working when you switch between Wi-Fi and cellular data.

My IP Hide iOS app connected — My IP Hide for iOS

Use a Proxy for Torrenting (uTorrent & BitTorrent)

When you download a torrent, every peer in the swarm can see your IP address. A proxy hides your real IP by routing your torrent traffic through a server, so other peers only see the proxy's IP instead of yours.

This guide shows how to set up a SOCKS5 proxy in uTorrent or BitTorrent, and how to check that it actually works.

utorrent Proxy Settings — uTorrent Proxy Settings

Google Proxies Come Back

Google blocks all the public proxies in the year 2016. But it allows public proxies in the year 2021. So we say Google proxies come back.

Rotating Proxy: How to Choose IPs in a Specific Country?

Question: How can I choose IP addresses from a specific country when using the Rotating Proxy service?

Use Rotating Proxy with Selenium

Here we will show how to use our Rotating Proxy with Selenium Chrome/Firefox. You can use both our Rotating Premium Proxy services (stable premium proxies) and Rotating Open Proxy (unstable public proxies) for Selenium browsers.

Use Rotating Proxy in Scraping Scripts

We recently released new services: rotating open proxy (unstable public proxies) and rotating premium proxy (stable premium proxies). They aim to make it easier for scripts to switch IPs while doing scraping tasks.

Regular Proxy

When using regular proxies, your scripts need to do these things to use different IPs to scrape web pages.

Get a proxy list from your proxy provider via an API (example).
Use a proxy from the list to scrape web pages.
Change to another proxy to avoid that IP being blocked.
After a while (one hour), get a new proxy list (Step 1).

Rotating Proxy

When using our rotating proxy service, your script needs only one proxy to do the jobs. It doesn't need to download a proxy list and change proxies. We rotate the IPs for you.

Use one gateway proxy to access thousands of IPs

Does DNS Test Leak My Real IP Address?

Question: I use a UK IP address in My IP Hide. But the DNS leak test shows my DNS servers are in Belgium. Does it leak my real IP address?

Answer: The short answer is No. Below is a detailed explanation.

Websites Know Your DNS IP?

The websites which can show our DNS servers are using the same technology. We use this one as an example: https://dnsleaktest.com

Here is the test result for our My IP Hide server 213.229.74.238 (UK5).

It seems that the website dnsleaktest.com knows our DNS servers. In fact, it only knows the ISP of our DNS because our real DNS servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 instead of 74.125.x.x.

My IP Hide Is 13 Times Faster Than VPN

Recently we made a test to check the speed of our product My IP Hide. It's an encrypted proxy service to hide IP and unblock websites. In theory, it should be much faster than its main competitor, VPN. How was its performance in reality? Let's see.

Speed Comparison

Since the test report is long, we put the result on the top. Here is a chart to show the speed of the VPN protocols and My IP Hide.

From that graph, we can see that My IP Hide achieved 83% (285Mb/s) of the maximum speed (345Mb/s, direct connection, no proxy, no VPN), while OpenVPN only retained 6% (22Mb/s). Since OpenVPN is the VPN industry standard protocol, we can conclude that My IP Hide is 13 times faster than VPN.

Fix the Proxy Settings Locked by Spigot Malware

Recently one of our customers had a strange problem. Some program locked his proxy settings. It was one kind of browser hijacking. We could not change the proxy settings from the Internet Options dialog. There was an error message "Some settings are managed by your system administrator."

Our product My IP Hide failed to work because of it. It showed the error message "You are using the unencrypted regular proxy 127.0.0.1. Your real IP address may leak."

Google Proxies Are All Dead

We used to provide a list of free Google proxy servers on google-proxy.net and update it daily. But Google blocks all the public proxies in the year 2016. So there is no google proxy server (IP address and port) on that page anymore.

What is Google Proxy?

A Google proxy (also known as the google-passed proxy) is an HTTP proxy that has the following two features. 1. It must support searching on Google. Proxies in China cannot access Google. So they are not Google proxy. Since Google uses HTTPS instead of HTTP as its primary protocol, a Google proxy should support HTTPS/SSL. 2. Google must not block it. To stop abuse, Google blocks suspect IP addresses that have unusual traffic. A Google proxy should not be on the blacklist of Google.

How to Use My IP Hide in PS3

Question: I want to know how to use My IP Hide on my PS3? Answer: You can run My IP Hide on your Mac/Windows computer. Then use your PS3 (PlayStation 3) to connect to My IP Hide. However, My IP Hide only supports the browser on PS3. It doesn't support the games. 1) Your PS3 and computer should be in the same LAN (WiFi). 2) Click the "Setting" button on My IP Hide 3) Go to the "Misc" Tab of the "Settings" dialog 4) You will see a Proxy IP (Server) and Port in that Tab myiphide_misc

How to Change IP Address?

What is an IP address and how to change the IP address? An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a numerical way to identify your computer on the Internet. Web sites can know much information by your IP address. For example, from your IP address, we can know your country.

How to Change IP Address

People change the IP address to avoid online bans and protect online privacy. How to change the IP address? Before trying any other methods to change your IP address, try turning off your Cable/DSL modem for five minutes. In many cases, this will change your IP address. But that method can only change your IP address slightly within a small range. How to change the IP address to another country? Here are some methods to change the IP address completely to another one.

How to use My IP Hide in iPhone?

This is a tutorial showing how use the proxy software My IP Hide in iPhone. It can help you to hide IP in your iPhone and surf anonymously.

Web Proxy VS HTTP Proxy

Web proxy has encryption functions but it can't support many sites. HTTP proxy is faster than web proxy and support all the sites. But it has no encryption.

Public Proxy VS Private Proxy

There are 2 types of proxy, public proxy and private proxy. Public proxy is open to public usage. Private proxy is only open to paid users.

Socks Proxy VS HTTP Proxy

A post about the difference between socks proxy and HTTP proxy, how to get, check and use socks proxy or HTTP proxy.

Free Proxy Die Quickly

Usually, a proxy won't live for long. It's because too many people are using it. When you use a proxy, you are using the resource on the proxy server such as its CPU, memory, and bandwidth which are all limited.

Public Proxy

Most working proxies on the Internet are public proxy which is open to everyone. Because of the lack of access control, the working proxy will die if the number of users exceeds the capability of the server. If a working proxy can be found easily on the Internet, it usually lives very shortly. Working Proxy Die