Worried that someone may be looking over your shoulder while you browse the Web? A certain degree of paranoia about the Web is justified. Advertisers track Web surfers all the time, planting cookies that track you. Using an anonymous proxy server you don't give anybody chance to find out your IP address to use it in their own interests.

A proxy server is a kind of buffer between your computer and the Internet resources you are accessing. They accumulate and save files that are most often requested by thousands of Internet users in a special database. Therefore, proxy servers are able to increase the speed of your connection to the Internet. The cache of a proxy server may already contain information you need by the time of your request, making it possible for the proxy to deliver it immediately. The overall increase in performance may be very high. Also, proxy servers can help in cases when some owners of the Internet resources impose some restrictions on users from certain countries or geographical regions. In addition to that, among proxy servers there are so called anonymous proxy servers that hide your IP address thereby saving you from vulnerabilities concerned with it.

Anonymous proxy servers hide your IP address and thereby prevent unauthorized access to your computer through the Internet. T hey do not provide anyone with your IP address and effectively hide any information about you and your reading interests. Besides that, they don't even let anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server.