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Does a proxy hide my IP address?

Short answer

From the website, yes: it sees the proxy's address. Through AnyProxy Singapore on 15 Oct 2026, ipinfo.io placed us in Singapore on a Google Cloud network, not our home ISP in India. Your ISP and anyone you sign in to still know you.

Full answer

In detail

A proxy swaps your address for its own, but only towards the website. We checked this on 15 October 2026 from a test machine in India: through AnyProxy's Singapore server, the IP-lookup site ipinfo.io reported the visitor in Singapore, on AS396982 Google LLC, a cloud data-centre network, instead of the tester's own ISP. A request-header test on httpbin.org showed no X-Forwarded-For or similar header passing the real address along. That is what makes geo-blocked pages open. Four things still identify you. Your ISP or local network sees your real address connecting to the proxy, because it carries the traffic. Signing in to a site tells it exactly who you are, whatever the IP. Cookies and browser details such as your user agent and language still reach the site. And because AnyProxy's address belongs to a cloud provider, many sites recognise it as a proxy or data centre: in our tests Google showed an 'unusual traffic' reCAPTCHA and Reddit blocked the request outright. Hiding your IP is useful for reaching pages, but it is not anonymity, and AnyProxy itself can record a hashed version of your address under its privacy policy.

In practice

What the site sees - and what still gives you away

The lookup through Singapore returned a Singapore city, country SG and a Google Cloud network, not a home broadband provider. That is the honest trade: your address is hidden from the site, but the replacement is obviously a data-centre address, which is why Google, DuckDuckGo and Reddit challenged or blocked us in the same week's tests.

Sources: WebRTC leak - glossary · Google search through AnyProxy - test results · AnyProxy privacy policy

We checked

What a site sees through AnyProxy, 15 October 2026

Google reCAPTCHA unusual-traffic page through AnyProxy Singapore, IP hidden

Google search

Did not work · SG exit · 2026-10-15

Google redirected to its /sorry/ reCAPTCHA page ('unusual traffic from your computer network'); same through Frankfurt. IP line hidden.

People also ask

Does a proxy hide my IP from my ISP?
No. Your ISP assigned your address and carries the traffic. It sees you connecting to the proxy, not the sites behind it.
Why do sites still ask me for CAPTCHAs?
The address they see belongs to a cloud data centre shared by many users. Google's reCAPTCHA and DuckDuckGo's image check both appeared in our 15 Oct 2026 tests.

See also

IP address — glossaryAnonymous proxy — glossaryWhat a proxy hides — hop by hop

Related questions

Do you keep logs of the URLs I visit?Yes, AnyProxy can keep records. Running the service can record the sites you open, session IDs, region, country, browser details, referrer and a hashed IP address. It is not a no-logs service.Can my ISP see that I used a web proxy?Yes, your ISP can see you used AnyProxy, and even which region: the server name such as sg.anyproxy.site travels unencrypted in the connection setup. It cannot see which sites you open inside it.

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