Encrypting Your Data
A huge reason that people use web-based proxies is to encrypt their online data.
With a simple script, a website is able to find out your browser, operating system, and even location. See your IP address? That can be used to track you right down to the computer you are reading from at this very moment.
People who do not want to be seen using the Internet, such as Free Speech activists and criminals may use proxies in order to hide their data. What a proxy does is it assigns random information to you.
Let’s say you live in the United States and use Mozilla Firefox. After using a proxy, somebody trying to track you will learn that you live in Greece and use Netscape Navigator. Unless they are able to circumvent the proxy encryption (not likely), they will not know your real location or information.
Last Updated: March 14, 2009 • Category: Proxy Users