Monday, 14 April 2014

Proxy for Anonymous Browsing

There are many reasons when you want to browsing the internet anonymously; the main reason is to hide your IP address. When you visit some website you provide a lot of information about you and your computer to that website. With help of IP address it is possible to determine not just your country but also more precise location. So it important for privacy reason to hide IP address.

You can use web proxy to bypass direct connection to with any website, it is like a middleman who accepts requests and return requested web pages. So the website will see proxy computer for example Web Proxy for YouTube and will not be able to see your information and will not able to track your location and other information. The disadvantage of the proxy is its slower speed because of additional elements between your computer and web server.

There are a lot of free proxies available; you can use any of these web proxies, Zalmos Proxy is very simple to use. You have to open the web proxy site and enter the URL of desired website into the search box of the web proxy; the website will be open through the IP address of the web proxy. Some websites gives different results according to the country, when you are using the web proxy you will not see the local content you will see the content related to the country where web proxy server is located.

Proxy servers also provide additional functions for your better protection, they enable you to prevent storing cookies, and cookies are some data that is stored on your computer when you visit certain pages. The second protection function is to remove JavaScript code, this code run in your browser when the page loads. You can enable or disable these options on the same page where you enter the target address.

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