What's a proxy?
A proxy acts as an intermediary between you and the Internet. Rather connecting directly to a website, we instead go to the website on your behalf and relay the content back to your computer.Advantages to using a proxy include:
- Hides identifying things such as your IP address, ISP, location and other details.
- Gets around filters put in place by work, school or your government which block websites.
- Our web-based proxy can alter the website’s content the way you like it; it can remove advertisements, scripts, objects, and has a host of privacy options to make your browsing more clandestine.
Here is a visual representation of a proxy in action. The green and red lines represent the flow of data and are bi-directional.
What is a web-based proxy?
A web-based proxy requires no configuration of your web browser and is used simply by entering the website address that you intend to visit into a form and clicking ‘Go!’.Advantages of a web-based proxy include:
- No configuration of your web browser is required.
- The ability to alter the website’s content, such as cookie, script and object removal, as well as a bandwidth-friendly text only option.
- Privacy options such as URL and page encoding, cache limiting and page title removal.
However, due to the nature of page rewriting used in web-based proxy technology, objects such as Flash and ActiveX cannot be rewritten. If you wish to view websites that use this content, we also include a SOCKS proxy for our subscribers.
What is a SOCKS proxy?
A SOCKS proxy routes all web traffic through our servers, ensuring maximum compatibility with all websites, even those with objects such as Flash or ActiveX. The SOCKS proxy can be accessed by simply changing your web browser settings. You can even route other Internet traffic through a SOCKS proxy, such as online games or instant messaging applications.Advantages of a SOCKS proxy include:
- High compatibility for all website content
- Use games, instant messaging applications, and more through the SOCKS proxy
