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Edu-Money, the most useful affiliate network within essay niche. Today we will talk about such a burning question as privacy and anonymousness on the net. This subject will be particularly useful for webmasters who use PBN, or AdWords cloaking specialists.
Both types of traffic boosting are extremely popular in our beloved essay niche
(along with the same doorsways), therefore the article is interesting for both beginners and experienced traffic game changers.
RTFM
Footprint is a complete digital fingerprint of a device, which includes the information about your operating system, settings, active browsers, installed plugins, etc. Such an imprint is presented in the form of a unique code or picture.
What is the difference between cookies? To begin with, cookies are relevant within the same domain, while the fingerprint allows you to track the sources of conversion to the target website and the referral path from this site. Cookies, including the eternal ones, can be cleaned or blocked, which by the way isn’t a complicated thing. Whereas fingerprints can be only substituted.
Fingerprints that we deserved.
The most common, browser-based:
• Current IP
• Browser headers (User Agent, HTTP, ACCEPT, Do Not Track);
• Display Settings;
• JavaScript;
• Information about cookies and super cookies enabled or disabled in the browser;
• Installed browser plug-ins, their versions and updates.
Don’t hope that private mode or changing the browser can keep privacy on the net. Private mode does not block the collection of information about the computer and the operating system, and modern trackers allow to trace information from different browsers on one hardware and easily identify the end user. This technology is called Cross-Browser Fingerprinting and it allows you to track:
• Operating system;
• Number of cores in the processor;
• List of fonts and installed languages;
• Analyze the responses to browser-based operations that involve the operating system and hardware components of the computer (line rendering, volumetric figures, pictures, creation of shadows, etc.). Such data doesn’t depend on a browser.
Now we will discuss how to prevent this.
VPN and proxy server
This one is short.
VPN is the simplest method for overcoming regional prohibitions. It changes your IP to an available one within the service. It doesn’t protect against lots of trackers and doesn’t affect the already collected cookies.
Proxy is a free strip that does not encrypt your traffic.
Don’t be stingy on buying a good multi-channel VPN and turn it on even when switching to a dedicated server which we’re about to discuss below.
Browsers
The most reliable is Firefox. We install plugins on it, which substitute the browser identification and block various trackers and beacons. There are paid and free ones, simple and with more advanced settings, for experienced users.
There are also platforms created to replace different browser footprints. The software is designed to work with a large number of browser profiles. Each profile is in its’ ‘container’ and there is no way that the history, cookies and fingerprints will move from one browser to another.
There are specially assembled browsers for anonymous web surfing as well.
If you are interested in such plug-ins, platforms or browsers, please PM me or contact within the affiliate network and I will advise convenient tools to use.
Manually
Making your digital footprint less unique can be done with Manual changes.
1. Change the time zone of the device;
2. Install another language for the operating system of the device;
3. Install a different browsing language;
4. Change the screen resolution of the device;
5. Change the dimensions of the web page;
6. Installing or removing browser plugins;
7. Disabling Flash, Javascript and WebGL.
These are drastic steps, but they are extremely inconvenient for surfing.
Dedicated Servers
The use of dedicated servers is still considered to be the one of the most effective ways to keep your anonymousness. It is a separate physical machine which makes data transfer to your main and work stations impossible.
Pros:
• Configure the HTTP / SOCKS proxy or SSH / VPN connection at your choice;
• Controlling the history of requests;
• It saves from attacks via Flash, Java, JavaScript, if you use a remote browser;
Cons:
• Relatively high cost;
• Requires technical knowledge to properly configure.
The main reason of popularity and effectiveness of this method is that such a virtual machine is completely new and clean for the internet, works full time and doesn’t transmit any information about the end user and the machine properties (it’s said Facebook tracks even the MAC address)
Some more useful tips:
We block ourselves from Google Analytics tracking -
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Many people use the popular CloudFlare service to cover up the tracks of their PBN. However, you can’t consider this service as a cure-all.
This blog describes very well CloudFlare footprints are and how to heal them.
Test
After all the manipulations, you need to check all the actual footprints that your browser sends out. These websites have all the relevant information up to date.
Check each profile
https://whoer.net/en
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
https://browserleaks.com/canvas
https://audiofingerprint.openwpm.com/
Conclusions
Modern internet collects a huge database of information about each of its’ users. Mainly this is done by various websites for analytics, which doesn’t hurt. Some collect social information for the organization and the state, which is fine as well, unless you are involved in a severe crime, of course. Simple arbitrators who work for a living in the net, need to pass various moderations - Google, Facebook, etc. The internet society actively creates and promotes a variety of online privacy tools that, on the one hand, protect against scams and, on the other hand, help advertisers overcoming the rules.
Even if you work in white niches and don’t plan to violate any rules – it’s still wise to use the described tools and their analogues for comfortable and secure work on the net. VPN allows you to save on services that depending on different geo-locations offer different prices for their products; multi-profile platforms allow you to organize and effectively manage a large number of accounts at the same time; dedicated servers enable you to safely test different bundles and adapt the product for different technical requirements.
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