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DuckDuckGo’s Fire Button on iOS clears local browsing traces — cookies, website caches, favicons, open tabs, back‑button history, visited URLs and granted permissions — and can now optionally delete D...
Researchers and journalists document multiple practical workarounds to Discord’s age-gating—VPNs, in‑game photo tricks and third‑party code—while experts warn that such bypasses expose platforms to le...
DuckDuckGo blocks trackers using curated blocklists, request‑blocking (3rd‑Party Tracker Loading Protection), cookie and fingerprinting defenses, and an Android “App Tracking Protection” VPN‑style fil...
IronFox is a recent, Firefox-based, privacy‑hardened Android fork that aims to continue Mull’s approach to fingerprint resistance and security hardening; its source is public on GitLab/GitHub and it a...
IronFox is an Android-focused, privacy‑hardened fork of Mozilla Firefox that continues the Mull Browser lineage and aims to remove Mozilla telemetry/services while adding fingerprinting and other hard...
There is public evidence of many consumer complaints and negative reviews about products marketed as “Iron Boost” or similarly named supplements on review platforms like Trustpilot and retailer pages;...
Discord says deleted messages are removed from its systems but some content — including public posts used for safety training — can be retained from 180 days to two years, and Discord warns backups ma...
DuckDuckGo’s iOS app provides in‑app controls to clear browsing data (fire icon / Clear Data or Clear All Data) and an Auto Clear Data feature that closes tabs and clears data after inactivity; multip...
DuckDuckGo blocks many fingerprinting scripts before they load and overrides browser APIs to return limited or alternative values, as part of a suite including 3rd‑Party Tracker Loading Protection and...
A straightforward way to “draw simulated selfhost” environments is to use Excalidraw, an open-source, hand-drawn style virtual whiteboard that can be self-hosted or used as a hosted service, and which...
IronFox is a hardened Firefox-based Android fork that intentionally includes anti‑fingerprinting measures (timezone spoofing, fingerprinting protection overrides) and advertises “focus mainly on preve...
Several browser extensions and standalone services claim to detect AI‑generated or deepfake videos on YouTube, including AI Content Shield (Chrome/Firefox), Hive AI Detector (Chrome), Hiya’s Deepfake ...
DuckDuckGo’s Tracker Radar is an open, continuously crawled dataset that powers DuckDuckGo’s app and extension block lists and claims broad coverage of third‑party trackers; DuckDuckGo estimates top e...
DuckDuckGo’s iOS app includes a prominent “Fire Button” that clears tabs, cookies, caches and site permissions; Apple’s App Store notes that recent updates let the Fire Button also delete Duck.ai chat...
GrapheneOS began as an open-source, security-focused Android project founded by Daniel Micay in late 2014; it evolved from the CopperheadOS codebase and was announced under the GrapheneOS name in 2019...
ADB can remove many nonessential Samsung and carrier apps for the current user without rooting by using commands such as pm uninstall --user 0, and several community-maintained “safe to remove” lists ...
The main batches of the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein civil-case materials are hosted on multiple DocumentCloud collections — notably “Epstein Docs” and the 943‑page files titled variants such as “1....
Audacity’s safety debate centers not on malware but on a 2021 privacy-policy change under Muse Group that introduced limited telemetry (IP address, OS version, CPU type) for update-checking and option...
Tor's new Vanguards system exists in two flavors: Vanguards‑Lite (the default for clients and short‑lived services) and Full Vanguards (an optional, higher‑security mode intended for long‑lived onion ...
The available reporting and issue-tracking documents show ; requests and discussions about adding DoH/DoT or related encrypted-DNS features exist, but they are proposals rather than confirmations of i...