The Big List of Anti-Censorship/Anonymous Web Browsing Software

First off, why might you need to surf the web anonymously or through a proxy? There are several reasons:

• You live in a country that censors the web. Moreover, you might get arrested if you try to access the wrong site.

• You live in the wrong country. Websites censor or block content based on where they think you live based on your IP address. A mundane example is content restricted to the US like full streaming episodes of TV shows.

• You don't want your web traffic to be tied to you. You don't websites keeping track of what you read or search for. As several online privacy debacles have shown, major sites and search engines are remarkably careless with their users' privacy.

• Your ISP decides to act as moral guardian and blocks access to sites it deems immoral.
  

For these reasons and more, I've compiled a list of free resources below that you can use to bypass or defeat censorship and protect your privacy.