IdMask performs two major functions:
1) idMask
hides your computer's identity from the web sites you visit
2) idMask
hides the URLs of web sites you visit from your immediate network
(such as the company firewall, proxies, your ISP etc), and therefore
enables you to visit web sites that may be blocked by your firewall.
IdMask is a small program that
you download and run on your computer in order to access the special
idMask decoding proxy servers on the internet. After you start
the idMask application on your computer, you need to manually change your web browser's
proxy settings to send all HTTP requests to it, so that the idMask application can in turn forward
your requests to our decoding proxy servers on the internet.
When the idMask application receives a request
from your browser, it first encodes the URL of your request, and
then instead of sending the request to the destination web site directly,
idMask forwards the request to one of our anonymizing proxy servers
on the Internet. This anonymizing proxy server then decodes your URL and
contacts the intended web site. Our proxy server retrieves the web content
and sends it back to the idMask application running on your computer,
which in turn delivers it to your browser.
Because idMask encodes URLs before
sending your requests to the Internet, anyone snooping on your local
network or logging your web requests, will not be able to know where
you are browsing. If you are behind a company firewall or proxy server,
idMask can not hide the fact that you visited a web site, idMask simply
hides the identity of that web site from your network.
Currently, only regular web requests are
protected. If you use other software outside your browser, such as
mp3 file sharing programs, or if you're browsing a secure web page
(eg. if you are viewing your online bank accounts) then these
requests will not be handled by idMask..
Please see our FAQ (frequently asked questions) for more information.
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