Proxy Chaining
Routing traffic through multiple proxies in sequence so each one only knows the previous hop, not the original source or final destination.
Full Definition
Proxy chaining (or proxy cascading) is the practice of routing traffic through a sequence of two or more proxy servers, where each proxy only knows the address of the previous hop and the next hop — not the full chain. This makes it much harder to trace traffic back to the originating client, since an investigator would need access logs from every proxy in the chain. The Tor network is an extreme implementation of proxy chaining (onion routing). In scraping and privacy contexts, chaining is used for maximum anonymity but adds significant latency at each hop. Most SOCKS5 proxies support chaining via proxychains-style tools.
