Leviatan: the XS4ALL proxy you're talking about, is a Web Proxy. Web Proxies are caching proxies, meaning that using a good Web Proxy indeed is faster than surfing without one. We're talking about anonymity here though, and anonymous is one thing your XS4ALL proxy is not.
- If you're after speed and don't care about anonymity, go for a decent Web Proxy.
- Multiproxy is a tool designed to chain proxies: you'll loose speed, but you'll gain anonymity.
- Proxomitron is a web filter: it won't help you on your quest to anonymity. It can speed up your connection if properly set up (not loading animated gifs,...).
- Socks Proxy are NON-caching proxies: they're slow, but relatively anonymous: you'll need access to the proxy to find out someone's real IP. Loading iNet's Police-environment checker costs me about 1 minute, but it does not show my real IP. Now if only I could find a way to get Proxomitron to work with Socks Proxies...
