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Originally Posted by djchapple
Being both old and network illiterate I have no idea why anybody should use a proxy server or what they do.
Can anyone give me simple (less than 5 sides of A4 paper!) explanation?
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You don't use one so you don't have to worry
they are servers that are used to store copies of web pages so that (in theory) browsing to them is faster. Instead of having to go all the way to the original site, the data can be fetched from the proxy server instead.
However, Virgins/ ntl's proxy servers were notoriously problematic, hence probably, VMs decision to decommission them.