About web proxies and anonymous web surfing

Nowadays, everyone wants privacy on the web, because no matter where you go, someone could be watching you. Someone like your employer, someone trying to hack your system, companies gathering all your info to sell to yet other companies, or even the government, may be on your track while you peacefully surf the web. Thus, anonymity on the web means being able to use all of its services with no concern about someone snooping on your data.

Your computer being connected to the Internet has an IP (Internet Protocol) address. IP addresses may be dynamic or static. A dynamic IP may (ans usually) changes every time you connect to the Internet but a static IP is always the same. Most home users have dynamic IPs and most SOHO or business users have static IPs.