Preparing the device

Sometimes, people think the internet was built on anonymity as no one is regulating the internet or no one can regulate the internet due to its architecture. But when you analyze the components that are part of communication, you will realize that the privacy of the internet is hardly assured. While it might not be governments or employers that are spying, larger players on the internet, such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, collect heaps of information for different purposes. Even though we use our own devices, private internet connections, and selected web browsers, these companies collect information and use it for product improvements, introducing new products, understanding new trends, and studying your behavioral patterns on the internet.

Some time ago, almost all the devices on the market had proprietary operating systems, such as Windows, iOS (the proprietary operating system used on Apple mobile devices), Symbian (the operating system used...