How Does a Web Proxy Work?
During an HTTP transfer of information that occurs when a user surfs the web, their IP address is shown to the website in order to transfer information. This also allows a website to track its traffic by user. If the website isn’t a trusted one, they could use your information for criminal means.
When one uses an anonymous proxy server, they can truly travel the Internet in total privacy. The proxy will be the IP seen entering the site, and not yours! This eliminates all possibility of being tracked, and the proxy can go even further. It can delete all logs of your activities off of its logs, and then truly it will be like the web session never even happened. The only thing to worry about is whether the website will recognize that the proxy is indeed a proxy, and it would block you from visiting. If you are using a professional proxy that requires some kind of fee though, rest assured this should not happen to you.
Anonymous proxies are the essential staple of Internet security. They can even bypass government instated censoring on the Internet! These proxies can also be charged to keep track of cookies, and with no cookies as evidence that a web session even occurred, they can delete your browsing history altogether.
Web proxies are simple to use; just type the website you wish to visit into the proxy’s input box, and off you go. Anonymous surfing is so simple to do, and in today’s Internet community, completely essential. However they tend to be slower than software based proxies.
Both types are useful. Privacy Partners offers a software proxy called “Private Proxy”. For a web proxy, we recommend Proxify.
