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Anonymous hubs serve as the intermediary between you and the Internet. When you wish to access something on the Internet, your request is sent to the anonymous hub, which then forwards it (anonymously) to the intended destination. When you're using a proxy, you already have an intermediary between you and the Internet. If GhostSurf sends a request which has the anonymous hub as the ultimate destination to your proxy, the request will reach the anonymous hub--but the hub won't know where to send the request.

Effectively, your proxy serves as your anonymous hub. When it sends out your requests, its IP address is used in place of your own. It thereby supercedes the functionality of anonymous hubs. You can verify this by using GhostSurf's "Test Connection" feature; the backtrace from privacy.net will point to your proxy, but not your own computer.

However, your proxy (like anonymous hubs) does not remove personal information from the requests you send. GhostSurf still provides this and all its other privacy-protection services for you.