Lilybeth, I just checked your location (one of the EXCELLENT reasons to use a proxy: hide your 'location-by-IP'
) and you don't need to worry about the government THERE unless you're under age, and fer Christ's sake, you're 18 or over, RIGHT?!?
You're absolutely correct, the lag time can be anywhere from minimal to excruciating. If it's bothersome, I use a different proxy.
Another reason to use a proxy
particularly with sites like ours is
if other people can access your computer. I've scared the shit out of 4 gals by mentioning some of my fantasy PLAY ideas, even though I only want to PLAY (i.e. consensual 'rape fantasy'). If you have vanilla roommates, they might freak at a site like this in your cache, MRU list, etc. Tracks exist all over the place once you go surfing, and merely clearing the cache won't eliminate all of the traces. However, using a 'secure' (HTTPS) highly-anonymous proxy means that
nothing incriminating winds up anywhere on the computer - no browser that I know of keeps HTTPS pages in the cache, and the URLs are stealthed by the proxy so the MRUs won't show anything, either.
MRU =
Most
Recently
Used, like the last 100 or so URLs you've typed, pages you've accessed or search terms. Windows keeps a ridiculously large number of different types of MRUs as well as a HISTORY that doesn't get wiped when you clear the IE cache.
If any of that makes a difference to you (someone finding 'rape play' stuff on your PC) then yeah, I'd use a proxy. The only way anyone is ever gonna find it on MY computer is with a court warrant, and I have enough stuff on harddrives that it's fairly obvious what I enjoy. I don't hide it on my PCs except for one tiny Sony laptop that goes on the road with me.