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Web proxy

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Definition

A web proxy is a website that loads other websites for you inside your browser tab, with nothing to install and no settings to change.

Explanation

In depth

You open the web proxy's own page, type an address, and its server fetches that site and sends it back rewritten, so that links, images and scripts on the page keep going through the proxy. AnyProxy, CroxyProxy and ProxySite all work this way. The difference from a proxy server in your device or browser settings is where the setup lives. A configured proxy needs you, or an administrator, to enter a host and port or a PAC file, and then it carries all of that browser's traffic. A web proxy needs nothing but a browser: only the pages you open inside its tab go through it, and the rest of your browsing is untouched. That makes it usable on shared or borrowed devices where settings are locked, though a network's own rules still apply. The limits follow from the design. Installed apps, games and anything that is not a web page do not use it. The rewriting can break complicated sites. Sites that refuse data-centre addresses refuse the proxy too. And because the proxy fetches pages for you, its operator handles the content. AnyProxy's free regions are Singapore, Frankfurt and Virginia; Pro adds Tokyo and Los Angeles.

In practice

Web proxy in the real world

Web proxies vary far more than they look. When we checked eight popular free web proxies on 5 October 2026, two (CroxyProxy and BlockAway) sent HSTS headers that switch HTTPS enforcement off, one (KProxy) presented a certificate for a completely different domain, one (ProxySite) blocked automated checks entirely, and one (911Proxy) turned out not to be a browser proxy at all but a paid residential-IP service. On 15 October we opened Wikipedia's "Proxy server" article through AnyProxy's Singapore server in an ordinary browser tab: the full article, sidebar and images rendered, with no extension or settings change.

Sources: Free web proxies, checked - AnyProxy

We checked

A web page opened inside a web proxy tab

Wikipedia Proxy server article fully rendered through AnyProxy Singapore

Open Wikipedia's "Proxy server" article in a browser tab

Worked · SG exit · 2026-10-15

The article loaded in full: contents sidebar, appearance panel, citation notice and the Alice-Proxy-Bob diagram. Nothing was installed or configured.

Questions about Web proxy

How do I check if a web proxy is safe?
Start with the basics: a valid certificate for the proxy's own domain, TLS 1.3, an HSTS header that is not max-age=0, and a published policy on what it records.
Will a web proxy work for apps like WhatsApp or games?
No. It only carries what loads inside its browser tab. Installed apps make their own connections. The web version of a service is the only thing a web proxy can carry, and that may still be refused.
See alsoAnyProxy free web proxy

Related terms

ProxyA proxy is a server that makes network requests for you and passes the answers back, so the site you reach deals with the proxy instead of your device.HTTP proxyAn HTTP proxy is a proxy that speaks the web's own protocol: it reads each request's address and headers and can filter, cache or log them.Forward proxyA forward proxy works for the user: it sends your requests out to the internet for you, so sites see the proxy instead of you.Browser extension proxyA browser extension proxy is an add-on installed in Chrome, Firefox or Edge that sends the browser's web traffic through a remote proxy server, switched on and off from the toolbar.

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