Quote Originally Posted by Munsu
Well, I just used that http://proxy.virtual-browser.com/ to access xlned.com and this time it gave me the option for the free week.

I guess I'll try in a week and see how it goes, after I'm done using my current account.

Actually... it's quite wierd at the moment. I'm at work, which has the same ISP as my house, and going through proxy.org at the moment is giving me the option I was looking for.

I wonder why it wasn't showing up earlier. Guess I'll try again when I get home and see what's going on.
Ok.
In fact using vidalia, I had to change identities at times, because the direct link would send me to the google page of the country if the machine querying the page for me... So clearly they use DNSBL or an equivalent. Or it was just a glitch.

Regarding the option there or not, cookie or watermarking of some sort?
If not, do you think it could be linked to your other problem we discussed this week-end?

PS: for those reading and not knowing DNSBL is a blacklist of machines/servers/pc know to be proxies.
A proxy is a machine that anonymises you from websites you go to.
It's useful for many uses. But sadly the method allows for spaming.
Blacklisting these machines/pcs/servers is a way for a website to prevent
some of the spam to come.
For a forum, it's also a way of preventing a person from having multiple user acounts -most of them being trolls or even bots- It's not totally effective, but blocks some of it.