Forget About Gladder, Use Anonymouse

May 08 2008

Forget About Gladder, Use Anonymouse

Published by Jianjun at 8:18 am under Internet

Gladder is a free FireFox plugin that works as a proxy server pool picker. (To learn more about it, read this article.) However, recently I found each time I use Gladder to visit my friend’s blog, the browser is redirected to www.sheetr.com (see below):

Gladder problem

As this persists, it has led me to think about Gladder’s security strength and the possibility of its being hacked by such web sites.

Besides, as Gladder proxies are unencrypted, data transmitted through these servers are transparent. In other words, your data can still be filtered by the Firewall and you are denied access to many web sites. Furthermore, Gladder can’t deal with scripts, flash and a number of other multimedia features, meaning you can’t watch Youtube movies, Google movies and so on.

If it has so many limitations and annoying redirections, I don’t see any reason to continue using it. Anonymouse provides all Gladder functionalities without installing anything onto your disk.

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8 responses so far

8 Responses to “Forget About Gladder, Use Anonymouse”

# Randyon 08 May 2008 at 12:54 pm

It’s good to see this article. Since there are so many called “free” ware in internet. And they take no responsibility as you used it. The less maintenance & security may cost you mass price as you think it “free”.

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Jianjun reply on May 8th, 2008 1:31 pm:
Web interface is much safer. {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/1Swf6IKVpf_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”Web interface is much safer. ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/6rDTikq3Hk”}}}

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Randy reply on May 8th, 2008 9:12 pm:
Nice to see “you” & thanks for vivid reply.

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# chriswaugh_bjon 10 May 2008 at 1:43 pm

I tried gladder a while back and I found it to be far more hassle than it’s worth. I agree, anonymouse is much better, and for a multitude of reasons.

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Jianjun reply on May 10th, 2008 2:53 pm:
Chris, did you know there’s another piece of software called UtraSurf? It provides encrypted connection but only works with IE by default.

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# Ethanon 09 Jul 2008 at 11:37 am

That’s assume you can access anonymouse.org in the first place. Here in Mainland China, one cannot. So, moot point.

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Jianjun reply on July 10th, 2008 4:17 pm:
At the time when I wrote the entry it was accessible. But not now, unfortunately.

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# King Rayon 26 Nov 2008 at 11:58 pm

Just right click Gladder icon, choose “change proxy”,
then everything will be fine!

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