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Hiding your IP address is the best way to achieve complete digital freedom and protect your online privacy! There are many reasons to hide your IP address, from discount airfare to access to entertainment content that is off-limits to your region. This will allow you to unblock Netflix libraries from different countries and use platforms like Hulu and BBC iPlayer that are not available in many countries around the world.

It’s also a great way to protect your privacy and prevent your personal information from falling into the hands of advertising companies, hackers, and other third parties. In this article, we will tell you how to hide the IP address, do it quickly and without significant costs.

Mobile proxies are a great tool for staying anonymous on the web. Thanks to them, no one will be able to trace your tracks on the Internet, as your IP will be passed off as another one. To activate this service, you need to enter into a contract with the provider. How to choose the best proxy online service, you will learn in the article.

Why mobile proxies?

Mobile proxies are a reliable and effective alternative to conventional web proxies. Their main feature is that access to the Internet is carried out through a mobile operator. Your IP looks like it belongs to a mobile device. So you have advantages while working with social networks, where most of the audience uses smartphones or tablets.

Mobile operators don't have many proxy addresses, there are millions of users for several thousand proxies. For social networks it is more expensive to block suspicious IP addresses than just ignore them. Because ordinary users will be blocked too. And if restrictive measures are applied, then the restoration of the trust for a particular IP of the mobile operator is quite fast.

When you check the IP on one of the IP-checking services you expect the IP to be from that exact city that you see on your dashboard. But it may happen that the IP is displayed as the one from a different city, state, or even country. Why? You will find some examples, explanations, and possible reasons below.

Here is an example when we have checked the IP of the device that is located in Seattle and the IP-checking tool defines it as a Utah IP.

Proxy SwitchyOmega is a browser extension. It allows you to skip changing your browser settings each time you need to enable or disable proxy. Making those changes may be rather annoying. Especially if you have two or more proxies and switch between them frequently. From this guide, you will learn how to set up litport.net proxies in SwithchyOmega extension and how to use them.