anonymizer.xyz still loads, and that is the confusing part. What answers today is a holding page, not the proxy. The last working version the archive kept is from September 2017.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of anonymizer.xyz is from June 2015 and it holds 25 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "Welcome to anonymizer.xyz". Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
France web proxy works better than VPN under the certain situation such as school or office computers.
That is the site's own description, from the capture of 26 June 2015.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 12 years ago, and that listing counted 303 clicks through to it. The directory recorded it as United States.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 29 September 2017 and the archive kept visiting until 23 May 2023.
What the name does today
We checked anonymizer.xyz on 10 September 2026 from our own server in Germany. It answers with parked.
People still look for it: 10 searches a month for the name, according to Google's Keyword Planner read on 10 September 2026.
What to use instead
Use a list somebody keeps checking rather than a name that used to work. Our free proxy list is re-verified every few minutes, and an address that stops answering leaves it instead of sitting there for years. If you already have an address, the proxy checker will tell you whether it still relays anything.
The limits of free are the same everywhere, ours included: the addresses are shared, so the sites that care have seen them before, and there is no session to hold, so logins break part way through.
What this page cannot tell you
Why it stopped is not in the record. A dead name and an archive that runs out show that something ended, not the reason for it, and we will not put a reason in print that the record does not carry.
Our status check is one day from one vantage point, and a site that refuses requests from data centres would look the same as one that is switched off. We will check this page again by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for anonymizer.xyz, first capture 1 June 2015, most recent capture 23 May 2023. Read 2026-09-10.
- Internet Archive, capture of anonymizer.xyz dated 26 June 2015, quoted above. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of anonymizer.xyz and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
- Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide monthly searches for the name. Read 10 September 2026.
