Nowadays, your online Privacy is on attack. If you are a political activist or you don’t like to someone investigate your online activities specially web surfing. Then you should know that big brothers like ISP and Governments are interested in what you are doing on the web and this thing is increasing day-by-day around the world. If you are conscious about this for your information that there are plenty of tools and utilities are available on the Net that provide you Privacy online and keep your web traffic away from interfering eyes and make them private.

Today I’m trying you to introduce to different ways to increase your online privacy. Some ways are difficult than others but some are not so complicated and so simple. But, Seriously, these tools or ways will help to keep away from you for being snoop away you web traffic.

And remember, some time we thought we are careful and safe but in reality we are vulnerable to imperfect technology because internet is a topic itself, it needs to be a lot of learning and research in this topic to protect our self.

Tor Browser (The Onion Router)

if anonymity is what you need then you’re after The Onion Router(Tor) and want it. It uses amount of encrypted layers of huge amount of the network of its nodes to route its traffic to hide its connection or its roots. It makes you easily protect your privacy and easily share your information specially if you are political dissidents and whistleblowers. Here is a link to download Tor Browser. This is the custom-made flavour of Firefox Browser that automatically connects with Tor Network. Which also includes enhanced Firefox browser extensions. It is a complete suite or package but you also needed to change your browsing behaviours and surfing habits to get anonymity.

VPN (Virtual Private Network)

Become serious and conscious about maintaining anonymity by using and getting services of VPN (Virtual Private Server) from many VPN service providers like TorGuard and Private Internet Access. These services are to encrypt your traffic and your IP Address will be hidden from the World, and you will be hidden from Big brothers like ISPs and Governments. Even if government is looking for VPN services traffics some VPN Providers also provide Stealth VPNs and it will make you much harder to detectable. So become safer from interference by bypassing censorship and snooping.

DNS Leak Test

It is still possible to detect that you are using any services like VPNs through your DNS traffic. Whether you are using VPN services or hiding your ip addresses. If your configuration is leaking your DNS information, then it is very easy to detect that you are using any VPN or Virtual Private Network. Simply go to DNSLeakTest.com, and run extended test. If you see your VPN DNS service, then you are set and if you see your real ISPs DNS info, then you have DNS leak. Google “How to fix DNS leak” to fix this and then test yourself again to see that everything works well.

Virtual Machines

To Penetrate your privacy your Browser is not only way. PDFs and other seemingly harmless files can also be used to alert government entities while using planted files. Open files on Virtual Machine to prevent breaking your privacy. Install your favorite Linux Distribution on VirtualBox or VMWare, download your desired files you want to read, Make Snapshot of your Virtual Machines, shut down your internet connection, and read your files, close your VMs and reopen your VMs from snapshot you have created if you want to read again.

Tails Live Operating System

If you want to go beyond VMs system, then you can use live cd or live USB in which live operating system has been installed. Knoppix and Ubuntu Linux distributions can be useful for this purpose but Tails Live operating system can be used specially for preventing privacy and anonymity. In Tails Traffic are automatically routed from Tor. Encryption tools are built-in and there is no interaction with Installed OS. Still, you need to be careful if you are in shared PC, keylogger can be installed on it and All Tor disclaimer apply.

Blocking Third-Party Cookies

To track your browsing habits one of the most common methods used by more then two websites are Third-party cookies. Every major web browser has ability to turn off third-party cookies. It turned off options to track usage by two or more websites.

Blocking JavaScript

JavaScript is very powerful language. But, it can leak out private information to webservers like what options you have enabled? What is your screen resolution? These small types information can make you traceable by governments. If you want to be anonymous then you should disable your JavaScript in your Browser. For core functionality websites rely on JavaScript.

A Browser extension like NOSCRIPT can be useful to select which domains should allow JavaScript.

Conclusion

You might think that you don’t have anything hide. It’s not means that you can not enjoy the benefits of online privacy. It’s your right to keep privacy.

Thanks.

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