How decentralized browsing gives you superior privacy
A decentralized web is the main way through which we, the users, can get back control of our data from the biggest tech companies out there that take it and use it for various use-cases, ones we agree on specifically when we sign up for a service or download a browser.
While the internet and the world wide web are the biggest decentralized communication systems out there, when they are concentrated to a select social network and messaging apps, as billions of people do, it narrows the experience of the web.
This results in a web where we are pointed only at content that appeals to our specific searches, likes, and interests, which makes the users consumers.
While the internet is decentralized, the specific things we do on it and the content we actually end up seeing is controlled by a handful of global technology giants, which are companies that are starting to have monopolies over everything we do online.
In fact, a small handful of companies, such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Tencent, and Amazon for example dominate the global sector, and while they do indeed provide valuable services to billions of people, they are taking control over communication at an unprecedented level. This is where decentralization plays a huge role.
The Guiding Principle: Decentralization
Decentralization can be thought of as the transfer of control from a centralized entity to a distributed network of computers that all run the specific software in question. These networks are created to reduce the level of trust that participants have to place in one another. This leads to a lessened control or authority that would impact the functionality of the network. In its infancy, the internet was in a sense decentralized due to the fact that you could connect one computer to another directly. Then this moved on to a point where centralized services gained control and started to do this as a service, which evolved to search engines and other service providers. In other words, all of the data became connected and in the hands of a few specific large corporations. Not only does this place them at a central point of failure that can be compromised or hacked, but it significantly reduces the level of privacy and control users have over their data.
To combat this, blockchain technology is an encrypted technology that cryptocurrencies run on. It provides a network that’s trustless, and relies on the power of a specific system, protocol, or algorithm, instead of a central authority which would be a corporation.
These cryptocurrencies and blockchain platforms are becoming the protocols of the next generation of the internet, Web 3.0. Decentralized protocol layer creators are incentivized to maintain and enhance these protocols, which results in multiple profit centers that share value across an open network.
These also remove the middleman and work through trustless means.
Building Up Browser Privacy
Without a centralized entity that collects and processes personal data, the users keep their privacy, as well as all of their data, that is not used by enormous corporations for targeted advertisements or analytical data.
The Netbox.Browser is an application that serves the main function of providing web access and maintaining the functionality of the Netbox.Chain blockchain network. It is the first web browser that has no centralized infrastructure, which in turn means that all of the user data belongs only to them, and decisions on the areas of the development of the browser are also made by the community.
The Netbox.Browser infrastructure has a high level of transparency and is distributed and stored without any use of central servers in the Netbox.Chain. This in turn means that an individual address in the network is assigned to each web browser that gets installed, and this is a web address that can store Netbox.Coins as-well, which is the currency of the network.
In other words, it’s blockchain-powered, and each browser has its own address. Users keep full control over their data, as it is not controlled by a central authority, which means that they will not receive targeted ads, or have their data used for other purposes that they have agreed to upon downloading the browser. This allows for a higher level of privacy, and much-appreciated transparency, as the community clearly knows everything about the functionality of the browser and can decide about its future development. This is what Web 3.0 is shaping up to be, and Netbox.Browser is at the forefront of this.
Another fascinating fact about it is the fact that all of the Netbox.Browsers are united in the Netbox.Chain blockchain network and each browser is a node that stores as well as confirms the truth about the network blocks. The Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism is implemented here, where each member of the network can verify blocks and ensure their truth with a certain amount of the Netbox.Coin currency while receiving a reward proportional to the amount of currency issued.
Get Ahead of This Seismic Shift
Decentralized browsing is the future, as it provides you as the end-user a complete level of privacy due to the fact that there is not a single, central authority that stores your data on a central server and has access to it at any time.
In other words, companies such as Google or Microsoft cannot use your personalized data, browsing habits, and search patterns to recommend targeted advertisements, which is one of their business models. Instead, you get the complete freedom to browse the web for as much as possible and for as long as possible without having your data misused or tracked at any point in time. This is something that the current web infrastructure needs, and Netbox.Browser is at the forefront of this innovation.
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