# A question about proxies

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 3, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-proxies/501810 "2009-07-03T13:22:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-proxies/501810/1 "2009-07-03T13:22:00Z")

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I am a fan of Jon Stewart and the Daily Show and watch it the day after on the net, commercial free at [http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/videos.jhtml](http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/videos.jhtml)

Recently, numerous foreign viewers complained of being cut off from watching it. It turned out to be a glitch of some kind (since fixed) but I had had (and still have) my own problem with viewing the show which I summarized in this post:

“I live in the US. 3 or 4 days ago, I started getting stop motion video on the daily show (frame rate about 1/sec) along with frequent video seeking and buffering. Audio is ok (when not buffering). WTF. US fans: Am I alone in this?”

I received no answer and I turn to you. One of the foreign viewers wrote that he had had success using [http://www.hidemyass.com](http://www.hidemyass.com), a free proxy service. I tried it and, wonder of wonders, problem solved.

What’s going on here?