Your proxy connected. That doesn’t mean it hid your IP.

Every proxy checker I've come across answers one question: did the connection open? That's the least interesting thing about a proxy. A proxy can connect perfectly and still hand your real IP address to the destination server in a header. If you're scraping, testing geo-restricted behaviour, or just…

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