Why you NEED Tor

In today's day in age, online privacy something very rare on the internet, but not everybody knows that. Currently, the average internet user has around 7 social media accounts. Source Whether it be FaceBook, Instagram, Snapchat or Twitter, your data is being harvested without your knowledge and is being used to track your internet activities and generate revenue for the companies' benefits.

If you don't believe me, just do a quick search online with your favourite search engine (hopefully DuckDuckGo or StartPage) of “Google Lawsuit”. You'll probably see many results of news articles talking about lawsuits targetting Google and its many secret ways of tracking users online.

But, how do we get these companies to stop selling our personal information? Well, we probably can't. These companies will do anything for profit, and that's including violating their own privacy policies. However, what users can do is make a few changes in their lives to make it exponentially harder for companies, such as Google, to violate our privacy. We can use the various security tools online. Tor Browser is a great example of a privacy tool. It will hide your identity across the internet sites you visit and therefore, make you “invisible”. You won't be actually invisible, but you'll be anonymous.

What Tor Browser does is route your internet traffic through many servers while, at the same time, encrypting it multiple times throughout and masking your identifiable IP (Internet Protocol) address.

You can download the free, trustworthy and open-source browser here.

If we all collectively use these anti-tracking tools, we can put an end to internet tracking and data harvesting. We can do this!