After publishing the post about 4 portable browsers that can be used to be navigate anonymously, willdo and kingpin, two constant readers of my blog, let me know about e-Capsule – The Private Browser. Thank you guys! Let’s take a look at it and see how it works.
The e-Capsule Private Browser is a browser characterized by it’s “zero-footprint”. This means that no traces are left by the web browser on the PC, either as temporary files or OS registry values. After you have finished browsing using e-Capsule no one will be able to recover any useful information or data on the session itself.
e-Capsule stores all your temporary Internet data inside of an encrypted file using strong AES256 encryption at the block level (i.e. at the level of the smallest contiguous set of bits or bytes that forms an identifiable unit of data). This implies that information on your web browser session is always protected since it is constantly kept inside of the encrypted profile.
The best feature of the special browser is that it’s able to hide your IP address. e-Capsule can handle all your web traffic using Onion routing (a.k.a. TOR). This will protect you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as “traffic analysis”.
The bad news is related to that fact that the browsing speed in anonymous mode depends on the TOR network. As this not very performant lately, you may expect some slow browsing.
How To Use e-Capsule
After the download the installation is very simple. Then you can start using e-Capsule like you regular browser. The only important difference is that you can anytime switch to anonymous browsing (hide you IP address), as you can see below.
e-Capsule Private Browser costs $29.95 for a permanent license and you have 14-day trial period.
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9 Comments
HideIpAdmin,
Thanks so much for publishing information on e-capsule private browser,I really appreciate it.I am always ready to contribute to how-to-hide-ip.info whenever it’s possible.Yeah,it seems Tor network has become a crucial element in hiding our ip’s,if only it wasn’t slow I absolutely sure everybody who want’s to be anonymous will be using it easily.I am sure there many nice anonymous browser’s out there that just needs to be discovered.
One final thing about e-capsule, it comes in three version’s[don't know much about it though] and it’s portable.I am glad for your work on helping the reader’s,all the best of luck and keep it up;)
Hi,
I have one concern: there’s no Terms of Use or Privacy Policy on their site.
@kingpin
From what I read, you’re a user of this. Is anything related to these issues included in the S/W?
Thanks,
ad_infinitum
@ad_infinitum
I have noticed about e-capsule browser just recently last month.No I am not a user,but tell you what I tested it’s trial version,on somewhat fast LAN internet connection,e-capsule on anonymity mode quickly connects to the desired site with a different ip,but I guess the trial version doesn’t offer option’s on choosing any specific country’s IP’s.But overall the S/W performed quite well,it did convincing gave me Swiss IP address on first go.Hmmm Terms of Use or Privacy Policy is probably not specified for trial,I guess,but you are free to try for 14 days,though I sure on a slow connection,it make take a lot of time to connect.There is no download link to to HD Pro version,guess you have to buy the license to download it,but as HideAdmin suggested the license may be permanent.But as I have said just like TOR it’s portable.If you have any doubts you can ask me latter or company directly since the license is worth for a lifetime.My suggestion has to be SmartHide,which I have won here on giveaway,it fast and portable and sure way for hiding your IP.
Hi,
@kingpin
Thanks for the reply. I quess I’ll have to ask the company, though it feels wrong for a company in this line of business to not have a Privacy Policy publicly available. Even so, it should definetely come with the trial version – if you don’t agree, you don’t use it, simple as that.
About SmarHide, yes it’s fast and does what it says, but it offers quite some IPs blacklisted in relation to spam, so when you’re asigned one of those you look really bad on the net. I found out by accident when visiting a site which gave me the alert. After that, I checked them all to pick one that was “clean”.
Now, I check every single one at http://www.myiptest.com/, even those of my own ISP – if it’s “stained” in any way, I reject it and get another.
But the really negative side is that they don’t seem to act on this – I reported the issue to them and, up to the moment my license expired, I had gotten no respond from them and those blacklisted IPs were still available as before. No average user wants to be connected to spam actions – unless you are a professional spammer, of course.
In the long run, this will hurt their reputation; competition grows and more options are available out there.
Thanks again,
ad_infinitum
@ad_infinitum:
I totally agree on your concern for privacy policy.May be the company can shed some light on this.e-capsule trial and details is here on this link
http://www.eisst.com/products/private_browser/ .
I reported of e-capsule because it was easy anonymity providing browser unlike other other VPN’s where you to set up a vpn connection ,anonymous browser’s interest me a lot.I think you may have to buy the license of e-capsule to find out if it’s really good or not or may HideIp Admin could help us here.What about Xb browser?Looks promising on surface.C-kiosk anonymous browser is another freeware which you can also try http://sourceforge.net/projects/c-kiosk/.
About SmartHide blacklisted IP’s,this definitely news to me!.Thanks for the info.Guess I may have to query about this in their member’s forum or contact the company directly.You said that they didn’t respond till the expiry of license,may be something is not right there.I also use http://www.myiptest.com after I came and learned it from http://www.how-to-hide-ip.info.I again totally agree with you that no avg. user would like to have the blot of spammer instilled upon them.Anyway the license I have is for 1 month only,I will be careful about about blacklisted IP’s from now onwards.Its seem even reputed companies aren’t taking care care of there products,IP Privacy software which was I installed was flagged by my AV[Mcafee VirusScan] as having a backdoor infection,which is very serious if you know what I mean.I thinking of switching over to Invisible Browsing VPN and HideIpVpn,what do you think of these two?Are they having any problems?
@kingpin – Most hide ip tools are seen as dangerous by antivirus applications due to the fact that they change the browser proxy configuration or try to redirect all http traffic to a certain proxy. This looks like the behavior of a malware software. So, there is not much the hide ip providers can do about it.
At this time, probably the best solution are the VPN services. No installation needed (for PPTP) so there are no danger of malware or virus infection.
Regarding the 2 VPNs you have mentioned, HideIpVPN has excellent reviews and works great. InvisibleBrowsingVPN is still very new, but I have tested and also it’s a good choice. Both have trials.
HideIpAdmin
Thank you so much for your reply!I will use hideipvpn as you have suggested..
PS:I won hideipvpn lifetime license bcoz of you so thanks again…
Hi,
@kingpin
I haven’t tried out HideIpVPN (yet) so I can’t comment, but I see HideIP Admin covered you on this. It uses OpenVPN, which is a plus over InvisibleBrowsingVPN, which I also haven’t used and won’t until some iprovements are implemented (see below).
@HideIP Admin
Since I got seriously interested in this (thanks to you to a large part) I’ve come across quite a lot of readings stating that PPTP has serious privacy & security vulnerabilities. Even InvisibleBrowsingVPN admits to this in the FAQ.
Does “No installation needed” rely on the use of MS-PPTP? If yes, this is the worst you can get (quite some reputable sources on this).
So, if a solution offers only PPTP, it’s a no go for me.
ad_infinitum
@ad_infinitum – Indeed PPTP is not very secure, but for unblocking certain sites like Hulu and iPlayer it’s the ideal solution as it is faster than OpenVPN.
If you are concerned about your privacy and anonymity then you should go for those services that offer OpenVPN connections.