Web Proxies

Web Proxies
Web proxies are on-line websites that act as an intermediate between a computer and a typed-in website server (computer). To put in more layman terms, the web proxy websites have security features that ultimately make an Internet searcher anonymous.

"On a personal note..."
If you were a high school or middle school student during the last decade (cough, millennial), a great challenge to many a young men was accessing social media sites that were blocked according to a firewall established on a school computer network. If lucky enough, one knew a special student who knew the exact websites or ways to access and bypass firewalls, accessing banned sites. The "chosen" ones of a local school system were able to play Donkey Kong 2 while chatting with an international pen pal during Tech-ED class. Proxies are not just "black box" technologies; different proxies have different features such as stopping unwanted scripts (which create advertisements, banners etc.) from loading (onto a website).