Claiming itself as an Internet browser explicitly designed to secure anonymity and block online snooping and privacy invasions like spyware and malware, SpyNOT has been launched by Glyde Internet Services as the company’s flagship product March 3.
And a curious user doesn’t even have to download or install a thing, using SpyNOT instead from its own Website and, from there, using SpyNOT’s own address/surf bar.
“SpyNOT is highly effective at protecting people from being tracked as they surf the Web, either by Web-based marketers, overbearing employers, or others curious about your surfing habits,” said Glyde owner Lee Cassidy announcing the new browser. “It provides users privacy protection that should already be on the Internet, but simply isn’t. People don’t realize just how exposed they are out there.”
The browser’s claims include retrieving the Web page you want to see and securing it against privacy threats by returning it secured to you by way of encryption.
And, from there, SpyNOT claims to hide your unique Internet protocol address “by acting as an intermediary between your browser and the Websites you visit. So, the Websites you visit never know it's you visiting them, they only see SpyNOT.”
Glyde also says SpyNOT can block workplace snooping by encrypting workstation Web connections from workplace internal networks. “The encryption SpyNOT uses,” the company says, “is the same strength encryption used for electronic commerce and is powerful enough to thwart would-be electronic eavesdroppers”—or workplace filters which often enough block useful sites—with none but the user knowing where he or she is visiting.
The program is also purported to be able to block tracking cookies by storing the cookies before they reach the user and dumping them whenever the user logs out of SpyNOT; and, to be able to cover your cybertracks by making your browsing history unreadable to potential e-snoops.
SpyNOT also purports to discriminate when it comes to popup ads—Glyde says the program can use “logic” to determine those popups that are necessary for a Website to operate properly, as some do, and filter out the ones the program “logically” deems to have no such purpose.
For now, the program is being offered as a free trial, but Glyde has not yet disclosed what if anything it might charge to use the program in the future.
