Youtube,
Myspace and Facebook are some of the most trafficked
websites on the Internet today. Youtube is owned by Google, Myspace is
owned by News Corp, and Facebook remains independently owned by Mark
Zuckerberg and early investors.
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Proxy server is a computer that acts as an intermediary between two
other computers, you (client) and the website you are attempting to
acces (server).
All the connections from you to the website are connected through the
proxy server. Your request goes to the proxy server and then the proxy
server connects to the website and back again.
This protects your identity because the end website never knows your IP
address, only that of the proxy server.
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Proxy server can also increase the speed of your internet
connection, because a proxy can save all the requested resources of
other users. So the more people that use the proxy to access a site,
the faster it will load for everybody because it will be saved in
memory on the proxy.
Proxy servers are often used to hide or disguise IP addresses and other
private information about you and your computer. Only anonymous proxy
servers offer true anonymity between you and the website you are
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