Google Chrome is without a doubt one of the star products of the search engine company. And I say this not only because of its market share, by far the largest in its market, but because of the importance that Google attaches to it as a brand ambassador, which in many cases acts as a gateway to other products and services that, in one way or another, find integration into browser, in addition to providing it with a huge amount of information about our browsing habits.

This of course explains why we see as it constantly adds new features, because although it is the most used today, it faces competition eager to gain some of its market share. Recently, for example, we’ve seen Microsoft Edge slowly but steadily gain ground. There’s still a gulf between the two, but the browser war is a long-term contest as it stands.

On the other hand, we find Apple Safari, which according to StarCounter data has been around 20% for some time, although it is true that at the moment it is probably affected by the fact that all browsers installed on iOS and iPadOS devices must use technology from Apple , that means it is not possible to use Chromium or other engines. However, any growth in this case serves to reduce the space that Chrome shares with its competitors.

So today we find a new product, still being prepared, but very interesting. As we can read in Gizmodo, Google Chrome hides users’ IP addresses. To do this, they want to use proxies that prevent IPs from being seen by the web servers we access, and as we can read, one of their main concerns (which actually corresponds to what many users will have) is that Content said communication is not visible to said proxy.

Although this is one of the features that VPN services offer, this new Google Chrome feature does not offer this type of service it does not create a secure tunnel between the user and the proxy server. Additionally, there is concern at Google that this system could be used to bypass DDoS mitigation systems, so they are considering that some type of user authentication may be necessary to use this feature, which is also being proposed. optional.