
the preferences screen), a link titled Translate this page will appear, allowing you to
read an approximation of that page in your own language (see Figure 1.3).
Underground Googling
Translation Proxies
It’s possible to use Google as a transparent proxy server via the transla-
tion service. When you click a Translate this page link, you are taken to a
translated copy of that page hosted on Google’s servers. This serves as a
sort of proxy server, fetching the page on your behalf. If the page you
want to view requires no translation, you can still use the translation ser-
vice as a proxy server by modifying the hl variable in the URL to match the
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