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• Our normal web proxy server may or may not give you noticeable benefits. Since it is a caching proxy server, it will cache popular content that others have recently already accessed. It will then dispense the same content to you without having to access the original web site again. This can be helpful in accessing some popular overloaded web sites. On the other hand, when you go through our web proxy servers, the data will go via a longer path on the Internet. Instead of your web browser pulling the data directly from the destination web site, it will request it from our proxy server. Our proxy server will then get the data from the destination web site and relay it back to your web browser. Due to the additional transfer, you might see a slower response. Try it both ways and see which alternative–using or not using the web proxy server–gives you better results. Our ad-killing proxy server tries to kill as many advertisements as it can recognize. In most cases it does a pretty good
