This new Chrome feature may protect your privacy in a big way
Google is preparing an “IP Protection” feature in Chrome that could make one of the best web browsers even better than it already is. The addition could offer a major security boost to potentially millions of users sick of having their privacy invaded. How will it work? Well, the IP Protection tool will route your traffic through a proxy server owned by Google. This would help to obfuscate your IP address, making you much harder to track as you browse the internet. In the future, Google is considering directing your traffic through two proxies, which would further obscure your IP address. That’s important because your IP address provides a unique identifier that can be tracked across the web. That allows companies and data brokers to build a profile of you based on the websites you visit, which could then be used to target and track you further. That’s bad for your privacy, and it’s something Chrome’s IP […]