Browse Torrents Anonymously at Mass-Torrent.com

August 25, 2008 by sharky

Restrictions brought on by your ISP or network (workplace, school or global location) may result in the inability to surf certain torrent sites. Perhaps your IP address has been banned by a tracker (and the website) for inappropriate behavior. Or maybe you’d just feel much safer being anonymous while surfing torrent sites. Bypassing all this is simple enough - just visit an anonymous web proxy (or CGI proxy) such as anonymouse.org, type in the URL and start torrenting. But if you’re a heavy torrent user you may find this to be a major hassle.

Mass-Torrent.com solves this by incorporating a torrent site search paralleled with anonymous browsing. What makes this service unique is that all searching is conducted through the Mass Torrent Proxy, but the results are displayed through an anonymized webpage of the actual torrent site. And it’s fast, too! Unlike most public web proxy services, you probably won’t even notice a difference in pageload times.

Security

With all the heat that public trackers are going through, downloading torrents may not be the only concern. Most (if not all) torrent sites log the IP addresses of those who visit, conduct searches and download torrents. With Mass Torrent, your real IP will be hidden when browsing torrent sites - you never have to communicate directly with the target server.

Unlike many web-based services that use just one proxy, it’s worth mentioning that Mass Torrent uses multiple (and random) ones. During one browser session you’re likely to have been cloaked behind a multitude of proxies - Mass Torrent scans web proxy lists and incorporates a freshly rotated assortment for added anonymity.

Notes:

— While browsing a torrent site via Mass Torrent, you’ll be able to create an account at a public tracker such as Mininova, Isohunt or TPB (and log in anonymously). In most cases you’ll still be required to activate the new account through an email message link. For this, use an anonymous gmail account, and log into it through a web proxy before clicking on the confirmation link. This also works well for signing up to public tracker discussion forums.

— Regardless of whether you’re logged in or not, you will not be able to upload torrents to mininova while browsing the site through Mass-Torrent.com. Mininova (as do most others) does not allow for web-proxied torrent uploading - for a good reason.

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