Digital security on the Internet - Angel Miladinov

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What are the most used browsers for anonymous browsing in 2022?

  1. Tor

  2. Opera

  3. Vivaldi

Tor Browser hides the user's location, search history, personal data, and online messages from any person or bot. It is based on Mozilla Firefox and uses the Tor network for Internet browsing. It is based on many virtual tunnels between different volunteers around the world.

Second, in terms of the number of active users is Opera - the browser with "out of the box" ad-blocking solutions.

Opera comes with quite a few built-in tools that allow us to adjust how much a site can track us and how much it can't. Opera also has a free VPN built into it.


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The data is kept locally on the device where Vivaldi is being used and none of that data actually reaches Vivaldi, it's all kept encrypted with you.

What are the most used anonymous browsing apps for Android in 2022?

  1. Firefox Focus

  2. InBrowser

  3. Ghostery

  4. Orbot, which is based on the Tor browser


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Firefox Focus comes with many built-in tracker and ad blocking tools. There is also a very convenient button, which with one click deletes all information about previous browsing and cache.

InBrowser constantly browses in Incognito mode, which means it doesn't keep any history of where we've been and browsed.

What are the best cloud services for 2022? vs. the number of users using the free storage?

  1. pCloud

  2. Sync

  3. Icedrive, created very recently - in 2019.

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pCloud gives 10GB on the free plan, we only have 4 unlocked at first as it requires a few extra steps to unlock them all - these are things in their interest usually like downloading their app which will give us 1GB, get it install on phone etc.

Sync.com supports both a browser version and a desktop application for Windows, MacOS, Android, and Linux. Its free plan is up to 5GB, supporting end-to-end encryption.

Icedrive is a new company with a very intuitive UI, offering up to 10GB in its free plan. It works on Windows, MacOS, Android, Linux and there is no limit to the number of files you can upload.

What is a VPN?

VPN (Virtual Private Network) literally means virtual private network. Through it, the location of the user cannot be traced, because it redirects all Internet traffic to one of its servers, where it encrypts it. This way, no one can see what you're doing online, not even your ISP, and if someone tries to break into your computer, they'll only find encrypted information.

There are a lot of free VPNs out there, but I wouldn't say that the free options are safe - they're pretty poor quality, it's quite easy for some services to decrypt or detect that a VPN is being used, which doesn't give us the full protection that we usually use a VPN for in the first place . Most quality VPNs are usually paid, but they do give free trial periods.

What are the most used VPN services in their free period for 2022?

  1. Hide.me

  2. Avira

  3. Kaspersky

  4. Hotspot Shield

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Hide.me allows in its free 30 day plan up to 10GB of data to pass through the VPN, up to 1 connected device. It has a nice speed of 25 Mbps. It is quite strong as it unblocks and cheats a lot of streaming platforms, for which VPNs are most often used. There are 8 free sites in the free plan. It also supports several protocols, quite good for encryption.



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