Review Online.io

Market Overview

In today's interconnected society characterized by increased capability of everyday devices to connect to other devices and people through the internet infrastructure, the high degree of connectivity raises a myriad of consumers’ privacy and data security concerns.

The advertising industry enjoyed a negative attention both from the large public and the authorities because of its less transparent practices of online tracking and behavioral profiling. Following technological developments, online tracking became increasingly sophisticated, thus it is no longer limited to the "cookies" installed on the user's devices in order to monitor websites a user visits, but it can track real-time data accessed by a user and triangulate that with information stored about that user's location, financial data, health records, etc. These results are then complied into complex and rather comprehensive consumers' profiles that are sold to digital advertising companies for better targeting their promotional campaigns.

Very sensitive information is often collected thus violating consumer privacy. Moreover, the consumers do not have access to the data collected about them and consequently cannot correct any inaccuracies.

The Internet of Things provides a handful of opportunities for cybercrimes aiming at gathering data regarding intellectual property, confidential personal information, financial data, etc. Consequently, the cybersecurity market is on a continuous upward trend, being driven by cybercrime. Since, there is a dramatic rise in cyber-attacks, creation of malware software both for PCs, laptops, but also for smartphones and tablets, both the companies and the end users are becoming increasingly focused on safeguarding their personal data and thus enhancing the cyber security.

Vision

Our ultimate goal is to reinvent the World Wide Web experience by placing people’s privacy as our top priority, thus offering a more secure, non-trackable, without malware and ad free Internet.

Mission

Government agencies and big Internet companies that shall remain unnamed thrive on tracking your every move! Only together we can put a STOP to this!

Nowadays websites are full of ads that try to sell you something they think you need by creating an unfriendly and irritating browsing experience. Also, lots of them have hidden malware, scammy ads or mining scripts.

Online.io platform aims at making a groundbreaking change of the Internet, by revolutionizing the browsing experience and making it faster, non-trackable, without malware and ad free.

Website operators gain a significant amount of revenues from ads, which can be changed by implementing our solution based on the highly scalable, transparent and fully accountable Blockchain technology, which will ensure they get fair remuneration based on the number of visitors, time spent on their pages and the interaction with the site, creating a more suitable environment for quality, as opposed to spammy cash driven webpages.

A new website rating system will be developed for the community and you as part of this community will decide on the quality of the websites you visit. This will lower the time and stress spent on click bait pages and you’ll have more time for valuable pages.

How online.io works?

The financial rewarding basis for website operators will be the proof of online, namely a number that quantifies the time spent by users on each website. Most importantly, everyone will benefit from an ad free, secure and private browsing experience. Also, the end users will be able to rank each website based on their experience, by using a voting system based on 1 to 5 stars. The stars will then be converted based on an algorithmic formula in Trust Rating which will be an indicative of each websites' quality, awarded by its visitors

Features for end user

1. Free the Internet

Problem: Historically, users had to pay a visible or hidden fee to browse the Internet, the most popular methods of payment currently in use are Advertising, Ecommerce and Subscription. There are no/or at least next to none/truly free sites currently operating, even Wikipedia asks for donations from its users’ base.

Solution: By integrating Online.io solution, websites will now have a completely new revenue stream based on time spent by their visitors on their webpages, that will not require any form of payment from the end user.

2. Security

Problem: Most of the websites on the Internet are full of ads and lots of them are also infected with malware. In order to capitalize on their websites, the operators will also appeal to promoting ads, and hence they put their webpages and consequently their visitors to the risk of being the victims of bad ads, or other types of malware software.

Solution: Online.io platform will integrate a custom anti-malware and ad-blocking solution that will be made available to end users, so they can enjoy a better experience on all websites. Mass adoption of this solution also has the benefit of putting pressure on website operators to use our system making it more popular and robust.

3. Privacy

Problem: There is money in customers profiling. Huge companies (think Google and Facebook) invest massively in tracking users across a myriad of websites and actions so they can profile users to better sell to them ads, products or even information. This has the added downside that a person now becomes a set of numbers and will tend to live in an information bubble, you only see the information the companies think you want, the products they think you need, the ads they think you will click on.

Solution: Online.io will integrate a tracking script blocker that will severely disrupt the ability of companies to track and profile real people.

4. Quality

Problem: The current incentive for websites is to attract users to them by any means necessary this usually involves using tricks and immoral methods (i.e. clickbait, spam, phishing). On its own a system that allows website operators to monetize attention and also provide a clean browsing experience does not really address the issue of quality and will no doubt lead to websites that appeal to the lowest common denominator being remunerated greatly for shady tactics.

Solution: Online.io will integrate a voting platform that will allow users to voice their opinions on the quality of the websites they visit, warning them if websites they are about to visit are deemed low quality.

Online.io Ecosystem

1. Desktop Browser Extensions

Extensions for all the major browsers will contain the ad blocker, tracking script blocker, anti-malware as well as a web wallet.

The voting system will also be included in the extensions allowing users to rate on all websites, not just the ones using our solution.

2. Mobile Applications

Mobile applications will function as a wallet, ad blocker, tracking script blocker, antimalware.

3. Wallet

Our wallet will work on all major operating systems and browsers.

Mobile phones and tables will have one app for wallet, ad blocker, tracking script blocker, anti-malware.

Desktop operating systems will have dedicated app wallets.

The wallet will be integrated in the desktop browser extensions.

The wallet will feature advanced security including but not limited to:

· Two-factor authentication

· Fingerprint and face recognition

· Second device

· Passphrase + pin

· Automatic wallet encryption

· Vault option (you have a set amount of time to cancel your payments before they go through).

4. Marketplace

Earned a lot of ICE? You may wish to spend it for getting some products or services. In the marketplace you can find all the places where you can pay with the ICE token.

5. Merchant System

You can accept payment in multiple cryptocurrencies and receive the funds either in fiat or in ICE. Opting to receive the funds in ICE will come with a 0% commission guaranteed, while fiat payments will have a 3% commission. Best market rates will be applied for all payments using multiple exchanges.

6. Other

Plugins for all major ecommerce shopping solutions (Shopify, Magento, Prestashop, Opencart, WooCommerce, WHMCS, etc.

API SDK for custom integrations.