Thanks for the interest and PMs everyone. Since everyone wants to try before they buy, I will give everyone
FREE ONE DAY PROXY LIST ACCESS!
Just PM me and I will send you a link where you can access the entire proxy list. You have nothing to lose, and no obligation, I believe I have the best proxy list available, and I want you to see this for yourself.
There are currently 700+ live anonymous HTTP proxies in the list.
I think you may need to limit the number of subscribers or else the list will deteriorate quite fast.
Also, I think you definitely need better anonymous proxy checkers, as there are quite a few that are transparent (not ruling out that some were anonymous when you checked them, but changed status to transparent). But if you do more rigorous checking and screening at your end, it can save subscribers much time and effort.
Anyway, here are the results of scanning and checking the 715 proxies (took me a while):
Dead: 338
Transparent: 195
Anonymous: 182
So, to summarize, I found about half of the proxies working, but of the working ones, about half are not anonymous, but transparent. So on balance, about 1/4 of the total are good, anonymous proxies.
Obviously, when I got the list, it could have aged for as much as an hour. But if the proxies were all live an hour earlier, it gives you some idea of the rate of decay. Now 182 proxies are still a lot of working anonymous proxies, but it is a pain to do the screening and checking every hour (assuming hourly updates). The most time consuming part for me is the removal of transparent proxies, as my checker only removes dead ones and the live, but transparent ones need to be removed manually one by one.
I have no idea about competitive services and their prices, but if the transparent proxies can be taken out, which would reduce the list size from 700 to 500 or so, it will be quite useful I think, even if only a third of the remainder are true, anonymous proxies. At least I don't have to do manual removals of the transparent ones. This is particularly important, I presume, for those who absolutely must not ever end up using a transparent proxy.
What do others think of the above quality and price, relative to alternative services? I am looking for the best quality and price. Actually, I do not need more than 100 anonymous proxies for my needs.
Feedback? Comments? Advice? Suggestions?