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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2016
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Roberts, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
User privacy while browsing the Internet can be preserved by reversing the man-in-the-middle attack using a distributed network of proxy servers. The proxy servers receive user requests to load webpages of interest to a user and simulate the user's web-browsing activity by retrieving the target webpage from a target server. The proxy servers remove elements that could be used to track the user from the retrieved webpages by creating a representation of a version of the page without the tracking elements, which is provided to the user. By interacting with the target servers, the proxy servers protect the user from being tracked by the target servers. Further, by observing the user's browsing activity, the proxy servers can build a profile of the users that can be used to supplement content provided to user. The user can edit the profile and thus can control the information stored on the network.