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How proxys work
My ex boyfriend's dad has a family site but he has this thing on it that reads IP addresses and the location of whoever looks at the site. I want to see a certain page on the site (it used to be about me) but I don't want him to know. Do proxy sites hide this?
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Yes, they do. But I usually wouldn't go to the trouble. If you use DSL or dial-up, your IP address changes every time you connect to the internet, so it would be hard for them to identify you. The city location isn't reliable at, it shows me to be in texas, very far away from where I'm actually at. The only ways to reliably use IP address are:
-for a website owner to block someone
-for the government to track people down
And webmasters don't routinely browse through IP addresses anyways, the logs are incredibly boring.
If you want to always hide your IP without using a proxy site, use tor:
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This will slow your connection down a lot, but is much more secure than a proxy site.
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Yes, a proxy sites replaces your IP address with that of the site you're using.
There is no way to trace you if you stick with it.
Even if he did see your IP address, he'd have great difficulty in finding out who it belonged to unless he's involved in law or governement and somebody owed him a favour :P
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