Hinky’s Proxy Obsession

Actually, it’s not quite dead yet.

Proxy4Free has jumped onto the CGI proxy bandwagon, most likely for ad revenue reasons.

What the Hell, you gotta eat.

And why not?  For the last few years all they’ve published is dead proxies anyway.  In fact Proxy4Free is probably more alive than it has been in years, since everybody and his brother has hopped onto the CGI proxy gravy train for exactly that reason.  And of course since nobody cares about Old School proxies anymore.

It’s never been a secret that I based the layout of The List on Proxy4Free’s old layout, although I never came out and said it before.

Proxy4Free was the first proxy list I ever scraped and the first proxy list that ever disappointed me.  Since The List started I’ve scraped it every night during the 4AM run.  There are probably tens of thousands of (dead) proxies in the database that were originally posted on Proxy4Free.

Now there’s no point.

A moment of silence, please.