Glossary · Proxy types
Elite proxy
The highest anonymity grade: it hides your IP and does not reveal that a proxy is being used at all.
An elite proxy, sometimes called high-anonymity or level 1, is the top of the anonymity scale. It hides your real address like an anonymous proxy does, but it goes further by stripping the headers that would otherwise announce a proxy is present. To the destination, the request looks like an ordinary direct connection from the proxy's address.
That absence of a proxy signature is what matters against strict sites. A server checking for forwarded-for headers or other intermediary markers finds none, so the request has to be judged on the address and behaviour alone rather than dismissed for being proxied.
Anonymity grade and address type are separate axes, though. An elite datacenter proxy still sits on a flagged network; the elite rating only means it does not leak the proxy itself. The strongest setups pair a high anonymity grade with a trusted residential address.
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