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without accessing the website itself. This has many advantages. First of all, you have
increased privacy. Servers usually keep track of who visits them. Furthermore, it is
possible to make a recopilation of all the websites that you have ever visited. When using a
proxy nobody will ever know what you visit online.
There are tens of thousands of proxies out there. They are becoming increasingly popular
because of their benefits. It is true that some proxies are better than others so knowing
what a proxy is and what to set as an standard is pretty useful.
The dictionary describes a proxy as 'A computer network service that allows clients to make
indirect network connections to other network services'. That is a very complete description
AND there is something important to be rescued: Proxies are not necessarily contained in
sepparate websites. Your computer may act as a proxy if someone else connects to it just as
you can connect to your neighbors computer and browse the internet making it look like he is
actually browsing everything you see.
Will Proxies Help my Privacy?
The short answer is: yes. Proxies are capable of keeping you totally anonymous from hackers
and logs.
Some proxies allow you to change the title of all the pages you see. This can come very
in-handy if you are using a shared computer. This way, no matter who uses the computer, he
or she will be unable to look at your browsers history and see the pages you have browsed
(the name of the proxy will appear instead).
Other proxies allow you to block images or advertisement. By blocking images and ADS, you
are safe from seeing anything unwanted. We all know the internet is a dangerous place and
there's a bit of everything to see. Proxies can help you block everything or see everything
whenever you want.
In conclusion, proxies are perfectly capable to maintain your identity completely anonymous.
If you want, you can connect to a proxy in a foreign country such as China and make it look
like you're browsing the web from there. Many people are discontent at how easy it is for
the government to see which pages you're browsing. Speaking personally, a cousin was once
arrested because his son once visited a 'how to make a bomb' website; in my opinion, the
government should NOT have so much access to our personal lives. That's why I favor proxies.
How do Proxies Work?
Proxies are servers. You connect to a proxy and the proxy connects to the website you want
to visit; it acts like an intermediary.
When you submit a website's URL into a proxy, what the proxy first does is retrieve the data
of the foreign page. Then, depending on the settings you selected, it modifies the data
accordingly. If you opt your proxy not to show images, it will strip all < img > html tags.
If you don't want your proxy to show the main title, it will eliminate the < title > tag.
This all happens before the data is sent to you; when a proxy is fast this happens in
milliseconds.
So how is this useful?
Well, since the proxy is the one to retrieve the data from the foreign website, your IP
never appears in that site. Additionally, most proxies have Java Script security
meassurements so you can be sure that you'll never catch a virus if you're using a proxy.
Finally, some hackers use IPs obtained from logs in order to conduct a port scan and then
hack someone's computer. By using a proxy, your IP will never appear in anyone computer and
you can stop worrying about such hackers (some hackers have different methods).
Author : Zappak
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