In the not too distant past, surfing the web in private was a luxury and you did not have to worry about anyone stealing your information or hacking into your computer system.
These days of the modern Internet has brought a whole host of problems, from identity theft to companies collecting private information for their advertising purposes.
There are still ways however, to maintain your privacy online.
Surfing the Net anonymously means that your private information stays private.
Individuals and companies that use cookies and other tracking methods to harvest your personal information can use it for either malicious activities in the case of the individual or sell your personal data and habits to other companies to try to sell you products and services.
When you use anonymous surfing you are putting a stop to these practices being used.
Using a proxy server can eliminate the risk of your personal surfing habits and information leaking out.
What this does is masks your IP address, leaving only the proxy server's address visible.
This is a great deterrent to those who try to gather information about you and what you do online.
The number of proxy servers and companies who offer in private browsing is growing.
They allow you private browsing so your information is safe.
Some Internet browsers have this feature built into them but they are not as good as a proxy server.
Other methods you can use to ensure a private browsing session is to go into the control center of your computer and delete your browsing history, your cookies and your cache of any information stored in them.
This way each time you surf the web you do so anonymously without compromising your private data.
Privacy is a concern on the Internet and many people are looking for ways to maintain it while still enjoying this activity.
They want to eliminate the risks of tracking and attacking.
Tracking is when anyone uses your IP address to track your online activities and obtain personal information pertaining to those activities.
Hackers are more prone to attacking, which means they want access to the files on your personal computer, and that can be very damaging to you because of the possibility of identity theft these days.
No matter why you may want to surf in the Web in private, using these private browsing methods will help to maintain your safety online.