Question

• Discuss and explain similarities and differences between Private Browsing / Incognito Mode using a standard Web Browser, vs. Anonymized Browsing using a relay-based overlay network as well as the trade-offs in terms of privacy and network performance.

Answer 1

Hi,

Browsing is the act of looking through a set of information quickly, without a specific sense of purpose. In the context of the internet, it usually refers to using the world wide web.

To communicate over the internet, usualy our data is enclose in packets and added headers (like source an destination ) and sent over the network. These addresses like destination and sender information helps ISP (Internet Servie Provider) to sent the data ti right destination address. So the route to reach packets
The route can have a number of third party (Other providers) serivces(who has freedom of governing itself) to pass through. So these third party services can get the important confidential data like banking inforamtion,private communication and passwords.

To protect our personal data private browsing/Anonymous web browsing came into picture.

Private Browsing:

Private Browsing helps us from hiding their online activities from other users of the computer.
Privacy wise we can say Private Browsing is "semi-anonymous". Here your browsing history, site data ,cookies are not saved by your browser. But Serice Provider and network managers still can able to see what web pages you visit.

in simple words , Incognito Mode gets rid of everything you collect during a session, making it impossible for other users to see which websites users visited during their session.

Flaws:
   Other monitoring software like parental controls or keyloggers if you installed can still monitor what your are browsing
   you are still not anonymous on the Internet service providers
   Any add-on or plugin you have installed in the browser could be storing information
   The government can still track you

Anonymous web browsing:

Anonymous web browsing helps us in hiding personal data like banking inforamtion,private communication and passwords. Through proxy servers and VPN (Virtual Private Network) , we achieved Ananymous browsing.
These types of servers work by sending a request to the target server from itself rather than from the user directly.while anyone who listens to someone's private conversation without them knowing would only see the client or server communicating with these servers and not each other.

Flaws:
   As so many middle ware layers in between, we see lazy loading and some times we can see missing of data.
   Not all devices supports
   Costs heavily
   Using the Wrong VPN Can Put Your Privacy in Danger
  
  
Thanks,