DuckDuckGo is the private search box most people already know. It does not build a search profile, and the browser and extension block a lot of third-party trackers on the pages you open. Bang shortcuts, such as !w for Wikipedia, send one query straight to another site. The honest limit: the results are still mostly […]
Mojeek has crawled the web on its own machines since 2004, from the UK. No account, no ad profile, no retargeting pixel. The results page looks plain because it is not trying to become a portal. An independent crawler is smaller. News, images, and very new pages are weaker than Google. That is the trade, […]
Startpage fetches Google’s results and shows them to you, so Google does not get your IP address or a lasting search profile from that visit. The company is in the Netherlands. Anonymous View can open the result page through Startpage’s proxy, which also hides your address from the site you clicked. You are still looking […]
Ladybird is a new browser that is still in development that aims to get away from the only 2 other engine options (Firefox and Chromium) browsers that control the internet. They are in process of developing their own engine not related to any old browsers and not controlled by corporations. We are actively following it’s development and will report here for it’s progress. Please donate to the project if you are able to, it can help them build it faster with larger team.
Tor Browser shields users’ identities from online surveillance by onion routing the data through a minimum of 3 volunteer-run servers called nodes or relays around the world before reaching it’s destination. While enhancing privacy, it will slow down internet speeds and face restrictions from most websites, making it inconvenient to use as a default browser.
Read this Brave browser review for everyday privacy: see what this free browser blocks by default, where your data goes, and who should use it.
LibreWolf is a Firefox build with Mozilla’s data reporting locked off and uBlock Origin included. Tracking protection starts on the strict setting. Resist Fingerprinting is on, so the browser reports a blander set of facts about your screen, timezone, and hardware. That is the point of the project, and it is also why some banks, […]
Choose Linux for privacy with a practical guide to Mint, Ubuntu and Fedora. Learn how to try a desktop, protect your files and review app permissions.
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