If you use a networked anonymizer, after you configure it as
directed in your web browser all your surfing is anonymous. You
can usually
switch back and forth between use of a networked anonymizer and
direct access with a quick configuration to your proxy settings.
To visit
a web page using a single-point
anonymizer,
simply visit your preferred anonymizer and enter the site
you want to visit in
the indicated field. If you set your web browser start page
to an anonymizer site, then every subsequent
web access you make from that page will
also be anonymized.
You can anonymize bookmarks by prefixing their URL's with the
anonymizer site address. You can visit a page with an anonymizer
and add it
to your bookmarks just like any other page.
Anonymizers enable use of web sites that require entry of forms including
passwords and other information, which of course are shown to the site
by definition, without revealing any other
information.
You can configure an anonymizer as your permanent proxy server by
making it the setting for the HTTP and other
proxy options in your applications configuration menu.
Note that proxy servers set up in corporate and institutional networks
are usually focused on recording of access logs, virus protection,
and blocking malicious code, and generally cannot be depended
on
to provide anonymizer services or identity confidentiality.
