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With more cyber threats emerging and governments trying to access more information about our activity online, users turn to proxies to remain anonymous. However, mere anonymity is not the only reason why this technology became so popular over the past couple of years. Proxies are a great aid in a lot of business processes and complex tech tasks. To understand this tool, let’s study all the details about it.
First, let us define proxies
A proxy is a server users can connect to. It can be a standard server you’d imagine if you think about a data center, for example. And it can be some device that works as a proxy server. We will get into all the differences a bit later. For now, we will focus on the concept.
So, we have a remote server or a device, and we can connect to it. Doing so, we will reroute our traffic through it, and only then head to the destination website. On our way, we will pick up the IP address of the server or gadget and mask our real IP. Therefore, when we reach the destination website, it will not see our real data. That’s how we can pretend to be someone else by using proxies. And that’s how one can remain anonymous online.
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