Browsing the Web is kind of like traveling the world.
With physical traveling, your passport contains very identifying information about you (full name, country, picture, etc). When visiting a country, the border agent scans your passport (and may physically scan you for your bio-metrics) to identify you, and see what countries you have visited before. This information is stored in a world database, that the border agent can view. This, of course, is done primarily for security reasons.
Similarly, when you browse, each time you visit a new site, the site requests your Internet passport. Your browser and device are “scanned” to determine who you are, and from where you came. This information is stored in MANY databases, and is used to deliver a more personal browsing experience, or deliver targeted ads.
Now, some browsing solutions will make users think they are private by altering their browser “passport” and then say “you’re now private.” Some solutions will change or hide the cover of your passport. And they will take out all the stamped pages, or put false stamps inside the passport.
In physical travel, as soon as your passport is swiped and your country’s database is scanned, your true identity and your travel log is revealed. In effect, the same exact thing happens every time you browse when using these passport solutions. Your device unique identifiers in the existing database reveals your true identity.
The ideal way to surf the Web completely private and secure, would be to get a one-time disposable passport from a different country (i.e., different device) for each surfing session. In effect, this would give you someone else’s identification EVERY TIME you surf.
Think of it, each website would indeed see a person, but NOT you! They would think you came from country X, but you really came from country Y. Equally important, they could never see where you have previously traveled online.
During your visit, the site would think you were someone else. Yes, they would stamp this disposable passport, but it’s NOT yours. The travel activity still goes into their database, but the data isn’t associated with you. Furthermore, when you are done browsing, the passport is destroyed, and never used again. Now, that would be ideal.
The great news is that this type of solution, is available today! Read on.
