Why use a Proxy Site?

Proxy sites give you the opportunity to hide your IP address, protecting you from the internet by increasing your privacy while you browse the internet using a proxy site. This is possible since proxy sites hide your IP address and replace it with the server’s one. So if you live in England and the Server is in the United States, the servers IP address is logged not yours therefore anyone following you will believe that you are located in the US not England. Not only will it keep your identity hidden but it will also let you pass through filters and firewalls from an internet connection. When you browse the internet through a proxy site the proxy server is representing you on the internet. Therefore if your job, school or country is blocking a site you want to visit a web-based proxy will allow you to get around this block. Web proxies will often protect you against spyware and annoying popup as well giving you even more reasons why you should use a free proxy site.

As mentioned before, proxy sites can let you evade country firewalls. Most countries such as America and UK don’t have any internet restrictions. However countries such as China and Iran do have restrictions across the country. YouTube has been banned several times in China for example. This is another reason proxies have been created, to help people living in countries such as China and Iran.