The most known software to hide your IP is created in such a way that it ueses simple proxy servers.
What is a Proxy servers? Or why you should use software to hide your IP with their help?
These are simple PCs. It can be a modern server or a simple desktop PC. But each of them can be used to access various websites indirectly. When a webpage is requested with the help of proxy server it requests the page anonymously.
Anonymously?
Yes, when you use software to hide your IP, your real IP address is hidden. That is why we call it "anonymous".
Therefore, when you use such a software your real IP address does not show up in the logs of web servers.
Services that use proxy servers:
Website Based Proxy Servers or Online Anonymizers
This is a simple website page that is created special for unexpirienced Internet users who wish to visit some web page staying anonymous. You just need to enter the URL where you want to go to and press a button, smth like "Go".
Such a method is not very comfortable. I will try to explain why. First of all, such a service usually use just one proxy server but this server is high anonymous and very fast. The second problem is that too many users use this service at once, therfore the speed is often slow.
Such sites have many Ads and other promotion materials.
Browser Configured Proxy Servers
Probably this is the most old method nowadays in compare with new ones. But it still takes place for some Internet users.
As you know each browser has "Settings" where we can change different info. So, almost all browsers allow us to use Proxy Servers instead of our real IP address.
Where we get available Proxy Servers?
There are a lot of places to see on the Internet where we can find huge amount of free lists with thousands of free proxy servers.
As you may guess a lot of free means that all good servers are taken. So, you have to spend a lot of time to find a real anonymous and workable proxy server before you put it into the software to hide your IP.
Because of this big lists there were created a lot of software that do all durty work for you. You only give a list of proxies and software tells you which of them are anonymous or something else..
Installed Software Proxy Servers
As I said above, many software developers create special software called Installed software proxy servers. They are very similar to proxy lists but almost all of them are paid. You may use free proxy servers and free software where you can organize lists manually or you may just buy special software which does all this work for you automatically. You have a choice.
When you pay for some service with Proxy Lists you must understand that it is much faster and even sometimes you may choose a state and/or country you would like to be from for some website.
That's all for today! I will come back very soon.
