Looking online for ways to stay private you will only find guides and articles on how to use a VPN, virtual private network. As this tool will help you stay protected, private and also will encrypt your traffic. However, there is another way in which you can stay private online. And this way involves using private proxies. While this is not the most popular way of enforcing privacy, it can actually protect your privacy in a way that a virtual private network will not be able to do it. Therefore, in this article, we are going to show how to use private proxies to stay private online.
Buy private proxies to stay private
Private proxies help you stay private by diverting your traffic through a proxy server. In this way, all your selected traffic is first sent to this server and then online. Therefore, with the help of private proxies, your web surfing will come as it is originating from another IP. Thus, from another geographical area.
One great advantage of private proxies is that you can connect them without a client, as in the case of a VPN. All you have to do is to insert your proxies details, such as IP:PORT and authentication details into your proxy tool or browser. And from here on, the browser or the proxy tool will send all the traffic through the proxy server’s IP.
Yet another great advantage of using a private proxy is that you can buy a virgin proxy. A virgin proxy IP means that the proxy’s IP has never been used before, thus you are the first person using the IP. Therefore, there will be no online fingerprints that online companies can identify and attach to your online persona. This is the feature which makes the use of a private proxy for privacy a better choice than a virtual private network.
Sometimes a VPN is not the right tool
Let’s consider first how a VPN works. After you have installed the VPN client on your machine, you connect to the VPN server through the client. Thus all your traffic will be encrypted and sent to the VPN server. And from there, it will reach other online services. Thus, even if your traffic is diverted through the VPN, your traffic is still sent bundled together to the VPN server. Therefore, even if you encrypted it, Google and other online platforms can still identify that behind the VPN connection is still you. This can be achieved by correlating your Google login with the VPN server. Thus, no matter how much you try on staying private with a VPN, there are still ways of identifying and monitoring your traffic by third-party services. However, there is a way in which you can avoid this. All you need is a couple of private proxies and a couple of browsers.
A privacy setup
First, before even considering on diverting your traffic a virtual private network or a proxy server, you need to differentiate your traffic. This is why you will need two browsers. And you must use these two browsers at the same time, always, even if you divert your traffic through an IP address or not.
For example, this privacy setup involves using Google Chrome to connect all your emails and accounts of tier one platforms, such as Gmail, Facebook, Twitter accounts. And you can connect these accounts from your machine’s IP address. As Google and Facebook are already monitoring traffic, there is no point of diverting and encrypting your traffic. As it will be monitored on the server side.
Now, the second leg of this privacy setup involves using Mozilla Firefox with a few private proxies connected through it. And you will need this second browser with private proxy IPs to separate your online browsing and isolate it from your accounts you connect through Chrome. Thus, no matter what you search online, even on Google, if it is through the private proxy, originating from Google Chrome, it will be impossible for Google to identify that traffic as coming from the same machine on which you are connecting your Google Account. Therefore, you will stay connected and keep your accounts independent from your online browsing. Therefore, nobody will be able to identify and attach any footprints to your browsing behavior.
Sandbox your proxies use
All you need to do and understand with this setup is that you need to sandbox and isolate your browsing and online activities. You can achieve this easily with private proxies. However, you will not be able to do it so easily with a VPN.
Saturday, January 13, 2018
