I have to use a proxy server provided by my employer / university / ISP to connect to the Internet. Can Identity Cloaker work without direct access to the Internet?
Yes, it can! Identity Cloaker is one of very few commercially available privacy protection services that does not need direct access to the Internet and will still work. Identity Cloaker first establishes an encrypted secure tunnel over your existing Internet connection no matter if through an internal company proxy server or through direct connection, and once the tunnel is established, all the web browsing is done through it. Please see our schemas on the How it works page. That should help you understand the whole thing better. Naturally, you still have to be able to connect to the Internet and be able to surf the web through web browser.