One privacy solution for smartphones, tabs and desktops

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Intelligence agencies and criminals aren’t the only people who may be tracking your online behavior. Turns out there’s a lot more to your browsing session than meets the eye.

An F-Secure Labs study found that of the 100 most popular URLs in the world, only 15 percent are accessed directly by humans. The other 85 percent are third-party sites that are accessed behind the scenes of your browsing session, by the sites you visit.

What’s more, well over half of these third-party sites are tracking-related sites that are building up a profile of you and your browsing habits. Tracking sites are used by millions of websites around the world to better target you with advertising.

But there’s a way to protect yourself – now on your desktop too. F-Secure’s simple privacy solution Freedome now brings the “one button” protection it’s been offering on millions of smartphones and tablets to the desktop world.

Freedome for Windows makes users invisible to trackers, hackers, and snoops on their desktop PCs while still protecting their mobile devices with the same subscription.

Freedome for Windows also includes a new Private Search feature that helps desktop users get their search engine results without the tracking. Through the tools in Private Search, search queries are submitted to search engines anonymously. Freedome masks the user’s real IP address for additional anonymity.

By encrypting data, enabling a secure connection on public hotspots and blocking trackers, Freedome prevents users’ private data from leaking. The new App Security feature for Android blocks the installation of harmful applications that try to steal personal information, harm your content, or use your device for illegal purposes.

Freedome is free to try and use for 14 days on any Android and iOS device or Windows desktop. 12-month subscriptions are also available in groups of 1, 3, or 5 devices.