Security and Privacy: Some tips that will make your internet experience better.

Internet is a great medium for almost everything, from communication to exploration of new things. All your questions can be answered at one place, if you know where to look for. Although all of this might come in handy, it does have some drawbacks. Ever wondered? After searching for a specific thing be it be a product, a service or even any random search, as soon as you jump to another website. It shows you the advertisement of that particular search and every website you visit thereafter. Well some people do notice this and some doesn’t. It means some users are concerned about their privacy and security over internet and some doesn’t. Today, use of internet has increased almost ten times than it was one decade ago. At the same time threats, hacking, and exploitation also have increased, and adopting some tools and free service can help you protect your identity over the internet.

Today most browser comes with the incognito mode or in most cases the porn-mode. It becomes useful for so many reasons suppose, that you're regularly logged into your email and want to check another ID - instead of adding that to your account, you could start an incognito window and log into the new ID. This is also handy when you're using someone else's computer to check your mail - it leaves absolutely no history so you don't need to worry about whether you logged off fully or not. It also doesn’t store the cache memory into your computer and phone, this means you can save your internal memory while surfing over internet. But using incognito mode doesn’t make you invisible, your ISP can still track your activities. But hey it does come in handy.

VPN is a service that create a virtually private network between two networks and has a lots of use for the corporate companies that allows its employees to work from home without compromising the confidentiality of the information. It is also useful if you want to watch some content that is not available within your region. Recently Opera has released a new version with inbuilt unlimited VPN. What this means is you can have better security, better privacy over internet, access to blocked content within your region be it entertainment or news. Out of many one great feature is it hides your IP address, it will replace your IP address with a virtual IP address, so it’s harder for sites to track your location and identify your computer. This means you can browse the web more privately.

Tor is one such browser which almost everyone should use who is concerned about their privacy and want to maintain their secrecy over internet. Tor is just like any other browser but with some superpower. It connects you to the free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than seven thousand relays and makes it difficult for those who want to track you down. It makes it more difficult for Internet activity to be traced back to the user: this includes "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms". It was developed for maintaining the privacy and providing the freedom of surfing the internet, and stop the website tracking your input and showing you unwanted ads.

Anti-virus is an essential part of the computer security and it also protects your computer from the malware that can harm it while browsing. As far as anti-virus are concerned very few people use the paid-license version, and most of us rely on the cracked version, including me. Bitdefender is a great anti-virus and it does offer a free version of its antivirus tool so if the 30-day Internet Security trial doesn't have you convinced. It offers, spam filtering, anti-ransom-ware and some other good features.

Apart from all this you can also rely on the chrome extensions such as adblock and netcraft toolbar which comes handy for those who doesn’t want to be a victim of phishing and unwanted add pop ups. So fellas this is all for now, Till next post stay updated.