Privacy

In the past everyone used direct IP address to visit websites over the internet. Nowadays, people remember simple domain names. Instead of remembering and typing a group of complex numbers, users are now able to directly type the domain name (duckduckgo.com, privacyguides.org, startpage.com, etc.) on the URL bar to visit and browse the website they want. Ever thought, what triggered this change? What allows us to comfortably remember domain names instead of complex IP addresses of millions of website? This service is called DNS. ...

In order to protect our privacy online, we use services like an ad blocker, switch to privacy-focused browsers, use more privacy focused apps, degoogle, install custom ROMs, etc. But how many of the users know that there is a serious privacy threat always following us, leaking identifiable data to data brokers and advertisers? A threat that an operating system, its settings, system/user apps, DNS, VPN, or even a firewall can’t protect us from. It is called location tracking. ...

In 2026, the web and the technologies used in it have evolved a lot. This has also led to the effectiveness of online tracking methods, which made it nearly impossible to prevent. Once we defined online tracking just by a simple cookie. Now all the websites we use, even basic ones, are deploying dozens of tracking techniques on their websites with the help of big tech companies. Some are visible while many are invisible. At the end, they identify, profile, and follow users across the internet 24x7. ...

There is something so shady about the most used browser in this world, which is Google Chrome. No matter how many competitors with unavoidable features came into the browsers war, Google Chrome still dominates the web, not just because it is owned by Google, but because there is more than what you think. Every time you open the browser “Google Chrome,” you aren’t just accessing the internet like you do on a normal web browser. You are stepping inside a world’s largest advertising tool; its parent company efficiently utilizes it to harvest data about almost everything and show targeted advertising. ...

Nowadays online privacy is almost dead. Even in the comfort and dopamine loop we get from social media and the web, we also started to forget about the importance of privacy on the web. A single website owner to big corporations, including governments, has most of our browsing data, more than they need to protect us. Our every move is cleverly traced and kept for years without any security at all. ...