Secure Surfing means more than preventing privacy invasion by ad trackers and IP data aggregators1.
It also means enjoying protection against the actively hostile — viruses, trojans and scams — and the collateral damage done by legitimate businesses carrying things too far.
The Secure Surfing Organization is a web site, a network and an organization dedicated to providing sensible options for anonymous browsing, identity protection and safe browsing without breaking the bank or imposing ongoing burdens on the user. If you have to be constantly adjusting settings or interrupting what you are doing, it's not secure surfing, it's an annoyance you will soon abandon.
So the Secure Surfing Organization reviews and recommends the tools that you can obtain free or cheap that are very user-friendly while providing a high degree of protection and stability.
Of course all the tools in the world will not help if you engage in foolish or dangerous practices. Often enough what constitutes a "dangerous practice" is not obvious to everyone. The Secure Surfing Organization has extensive content that provides education, training, explanations and tools so you can get into the subject as deeply as you feel you need or simply opt for the straight up 1-2-3 steps to securing your internet experience.
1. "IP data aggregators" are businesses that collect internet protocol addresses and associate the addresses with browsing behavior, online purchases, and even in some cases the contents of supposedly private email. These companies always go to lengths to declare that they are not collecting "personally identifiable information" but the claim is hollow. One of the most serious examples of course is Google, which indexes all the private emails of users of its free GMail service and uses those indexes to sell you to specific advertisers. Facebook indexes "private" Chats and when Google and Facebook databases are combined, it becomes absurd to claim nothing personally identifiable is going on. For a deeper explanation of this subject visit the Secure Surfing site and search on "google" or "facebook." Or just read this article as an overview. There are many articles exploring the subject.
