Brave Search keeps its own web index. It is one of the few engines that does not rent Google or Bing for the main results. There is no account and no ad profile built from your queries. Goggles are rule files that re-rank what you see, so you can demote content farms or lift sites […]
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 […]
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, […]
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