Development of a New Online Privacy Service

ShadowBrowser (http://www.shadowbrowser.com) is an online privacy web surfing service that was developed by e-Marketing NC during the summer of 2004 in order to make available features that are not provided by some of the leading online privacy companies. It is a service that permits web surfers to anonymously browse the Internet, using only their current web browser and not requiring the installation of extra software, while not leaving a trace of where they have been in their web browser's history.

(PRWEB) December 16, 2004 -- ShadowBrowser is a service known as an anonymous web surfing proxy that works very similar to services like Anonymizer® and The-Cloak. These services all prevent websites that surfers are using from knowing their location. They have the ability to prevent websites from tracking and profiling their browsing habits as well as help prevent popups and hackers from attempting to break into their computers. As targeted online marketing becomes bigger, marketers will continue to increase their efforts to track potential customers from website to website, to know where they are going and what they are purchasing in order to build a profile and market to that new opportunity. How is this done? This is mostly done through banner advertisements that are provided to websites by a third party ad banner company. For example, if companies A, B, and C use company XYZ to provide their banner advertising on their websites, then when a customer moves from website B to website C to website A, company XYZ can report this to other companies. Company XYZ can even get into detail as to which product or section of a website that a web surfer was viewing. Most web surfers don't know that this is happening and those who do know, don't know how to prevent it from happening. That is why these anonymous services exist.

ShadowBrowser is unique from other leading anonymous web proxies in that it aims to not only keep web surfers anonymous from the websites that they are viewing, but also keep their browser's history clean. Most anonymous proxies simply add the url which a surfer is viewing to the end of their company's website url which allows the person's browser history to show web page titles and urls. Anyone who has access to the computer, friends, family, or coworkers, can know where that person has been and what they have been doing. ShadowBrowser works by taking the url that a surfer wants to view, encoding it against a unique ID, then sending the customer's browser to the encoded URL. Web page titles are filtered out and the unique ID is only valid for the time that the customer is browsing the website. After the surfer has closed his/her browser, no one will be able to access any of the websites that they have visited, no urls will display in the history, and no web page titles will show in the history. This design is able to keep anonymity on both ends, and even in between as many Internet Service Providers are able to log web browsing activity, but will be unable to do so with the ShadowBrowser service.

ShadowBrowser had started in a test bed on a project website and graduated to a a full service on December 14, 2004. It now protects its customers from Internet privacy threats, prying eyes, and keeps their web browser histories clean and anonymous.

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