Yahoo owns a lot of online properties including Yahoo Mail, Answers, Flickr photo sharing, Tumblr blog, etc. Many people like to have different identities and accounts for the various Yahoo products but Yahoo does not like that. This requires the use of changing your IP address so Yahoo can't associate you with any previous accounts.

There are several ways to change your IP address to create and access multiple Yahoo properties:

  1. Change your IP address within your web browser by entering a proxy server IP address and port number. This is probably one of the more common but most laborious methods.
  2. Use a web based proxy service. These are web sites you visit that allow you to surf the net using them as a proxy or middleman. While this method is easy, fast and free, there are a number of issues associated with this method depending upon the online web based proxy server ...