Google's Chrome Browser Could Soon Help You Hide Your IP Address

It’s not exactly a VPN, and it will only work with Google-owned domains to start, but it could offer users more ways to hide their activity online.

If you’re on the internet browsing with the recently redesigned Google Chrome, you’re probably not the most privacy-minded person out there. Still, the world’s most popular browser is gearing up to allow users to hide their IP address from websites, even without a VPN. Google has been building up this IP Protection feature to try and cut down on cross-site tracking by associating users and their activity with their IP addresses.

After this first test, Goldstein wrote that the IP Protection will start using a two-hop proxy, essentially a proxy for the initial proxy that would be run by an external network. The whole point of this isn’t to block users’ IP from every website under the sun but to block it for traffic specifically meant to track users even beyond the dreaded cookie. Google promises it’s building the feature so it won’t disrupt legitimate operations that rely on IP addresses.

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