Setting Up Anonymous Rotating Proxies With Tor

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Running Your Own Anonymous Rotating Proxies

• Install Ubuntu 14.04 x64

• Install Tor: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

• Install packages: sudo apt-get install build-essential

• Change to superuser shell sudo su -

• Create folder mkdir -p /opt/delegate && cd /opt/delegate

• Download Delegate source wget http://www.delegate.org/anonftp/DeleGate/delegate9.9.11.tar.gz && tar xfz delegate9.9.11.tar.gz

• Change directory to delegate source cd delegate9.9.11

• Run make

• Make directory for binary mkdir -p /opt/delegate/bin

• Move binary mv src/delegated /opt/delegate/bin

DeleGate Usage Examples

• Install HAProxy apt-get install haproxy
• Edit /etc/default/haproxy and set ENABLED to 1

Setting Up HAProxy on DigitalOcean

To Test

• Configure Firefox to use HTTP Proxy with IP address of where this is installed and port of 3128
• Refresh http://www.whatsmyip.org/ and note different IP addresses if working

Useful add-ons for Firefox:

• AutoProxy
• Image Block
• Flashblock
• User Agent Switcher