With today's internet it is possible for anyone to obtain data by monitoring any IP address. Information such as personal reading habits can be scrutinized and, in some cases, this information can be compiled so as to regulate the information a user receives from a particular site. In addition, unscrupulous marketers and advertisers can use this compiled data in order to inundate your email with unwanted spam and junk e-mail.
An anonymous proxy server is designed to conceal a user's Internet Protocol address. The obvious advantage to an anonymous proxy server is that unauthorized access to the users' computer is eliminated, thus providing a level of security unavailable through other channels. In addition, an anonymous proxy server prevents unscrupulous hackers from gaining access to any unauthorized information (such as IP address or other sensitive data) while providing the added bonus of the user being able to operate under a cloak of invisibility so that others (like hackers) are not even aware the information they obtain is being routed through a proxy server.
Anonymous proxy servers allow users to hide their IP addresses, thus restricting and, in most cases, eliminating the ability of others to track the sites a user visits or to develop profiles based on Internet use. By redirecting web traffic through a proxy server, chances of an online identity being compromised are greatly reduced.