Which term describes transferring your information through a network of Internet-connected computers before passing it on to the website?

• A. Proxy Server
• B. Networked Anonymizers
• C. Proxy Chaining
• D. Shadowsocks

Answer: (B)

This describes an anonymizing network that routes your traffic through multiple Internet-connected computers before it reaches the destination. By bouncing data through several nodes, the origin becomes harder to trace, and the website sees the exit node rather than your real IP. This is the idea behind Networked Anonymizers: services designed to anonymize traffic by passing it through a network of independent machines.

Other options don’t fit as well. A single proxy server acts as just one intermediary rather than a networked path. Proxy chaining refers to using a sequence of proxies, but the emphasis is on the chain itself rather than a broader network of many machines designed to anonymize traffic. Shadowsocks is a specific proxy tool/protocol, not a general concept of routing through a network of anonymizing nodes.