hidemebro.com does not answer. The name still resolves, but nothing responded to our request, and the archive's last working copy is from October 2025.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of hidemebro.com is from January 2012 and it holds 97 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "HideMeBro.com | USA Free Web Proxy". Underneath it was Glype, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
Two common reasons for this are to maintain anonymity, thus disguising the source of web traffic, and to evade content filtering.
That is the site's own description, from the capture of 24 February 2021.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 13 years ago, and that listing counted 750 clicks through to it.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 11 October 2025.
What the name does today
We checked hidemebro.com on 10 September 2026 from our own server in Germany. It answers, and the page is titled "521 - Web server is down".
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
The record shows when, not why. Nothing public says whether the operator lost interest, lost the hosting, or simply moved on, so this page does not guess.
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 hidemebro.com, first capture 29 January 2012, most recent capture 11 October 2025. Read 2026-09-10.
- Internet Archive, capture of hidemebro.com dated 24 February 2021, quoted above. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of hidemebro.com 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.
