Zoho’s commitment to privacy and a privacy-centric business model allows us to offer a conflict-free, privacy-centric browser,” he added.Īccording to Norton, 85 per cent of global adults want to do more to protect their online privacy, with two-thirds of global consumers feeling that tech companies have too much control over their data. “With Ulaa, users don’t have to compromise their privacy to browse the web, which unfortunately has become a surveillance minefield. “This conflict between user’s preferences and browser’s business models means end users lose,” the Country Manager for Zoho Nigeria, Mr Kehinde Ogundare, said. They were created to protect the respective company’s ad-based business models and surveillance companies that complement them. “Not many browsers on the market today are built to protect user privacy. Zoho disclosed that the newly-launched web browser’s name originates from the Tamil language and connotes the beginning of a journey into a secured browsing experience, as Ulaa, which is free and has desktop, iOS and Android versions, was developed to protect against tracking and surveillance and is rooted in three areas. Skrumble Network is backed by Skrumble Technologies Inc and has attracted over 15 world-class venture capital partners.Ī privacy-centric browser known as Ulaa, built specifically to help users secure their personal data and activity by providing a browser solution that universally blocks tracking and website surveillance, has been launched by a global technology company, Zoho. The MainNet release is expected to be early 2019. The decentralized version of Ally in Beta is expected to be live September 2018 on the TestNet. Over 70,000 community members have already pre-signed up for the beta launch of Ally. Some key features of Ally (Beta) include disappearing messages with set timers private, public and broadcast chat functionalities video chat with up to 50 members live media streaming in-app wallet and in-chat crypto transfers. “There is a pressing demand for a communication platform that places user privacy, data security, and freedom all first, and we are combatting this issue by building Ally to create an environment where people can feel safe.” “We’re excited to mark this milestone in our project, where the shared vision of uniting the global community is becoming a reality,” says Eric Lifson, Co-Founder of Skrumble Network. This ensures that no external entities have the power to censor, block or manipulate any data. Unlike Facebook, Telegram and WeChat, the new dApp is powered by the Skrumble Network public chain, and therefore uses community-owned storage with no centralized servers. Skrumble Network (SKM), a communication-centric public blockchain that simplifies the way people contact and contract, last week announced the global Beta release of its first dApp – Ally – on iOS and Android.Ĭurrently centralized in Beta, and soon to be decentralized in September 2018, Ally is the first of its kind, multi-purpose mobile media and communication application that enables users around the world to communicate freely, anonymously, and securely.
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