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US Patent for System and method for selecting and using a proxy device Patent (Patent # 12,034,559 issued July 9, 2024)

RELATED APPLICATIONThe present application is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/481,470, which was filed on Jul. 28, 2019 and is a national phase application of a PCT Application No. PCT/IL2018/050910 that was filed on Aug. 16, 2018 and which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/550,834, which was filed on Aug. 28, 2017, from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/563,157, which was filed on Sep. 26, 2017, from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/624,208, which was filed on Jan. 31, 2018, and from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/684,211, which was filed on Jun. 13, 2018, which are all hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. TECHNICAL FIELDThis disclosure relates generally to an apparatus and method for improving communication over the Internet by using intermediate nodes, and in particular, for fetching content from a web server using tunnel devices as intermediate nodes, which are selected bas…