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Brave Software is a privately held company co‑founded in 2015 by Brendan Eich and Brian Bondy; Brendan Eich serves as Brave’s CEO and is the most publicly visible owner/founder (company materials and ...
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...
Thunderbird is actively maintained and has recent security fixes — Mozilla lists multiple advisories including fixes in Thunderbird 140.4 and versions around 141–143 (security advisories) . Independen...
DuckDuckGo’s mobile app includes a built‑in “Automatically Clear Data” feature that can clear tabs and browsing data when the app exits or after a period of inactivity; this is the most direct way to ...
As of 2025, Tor Browser, Firefox (with strict settings), Brave, and Safari are the desktop browsers most frequently cited as offering built‑in defenses against fingerprinting; Tor provides the stronge...
There are multiple maintained browsers that replicate or exceed the hardening and privacy focus attributed to IronFox, with repeatedly identified as the closest functional alternatives across the avai...
IronFox is presented in community posts as a hardened, privacy-oriented fork of Mull/Firefox that emphasizes fingerprinting resistance and extra hardening on Android . Available community commentary c...
Brave and LibreWolf both pitch privacy as the primary selling point, but they take fundamentally different routes: Brave is a polished, Chromium‑based product that bundles user-facing features and rev...
LibreWolf and IronFox both aim to harden Firefox’s baseline against tracking and telemetry by disabling or removing risky features, but they diverge in scope, maturity and platform focus: LibreWolf is...
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...
Brendan Eich publicly donated $1,000 to California’s Proposition 8 in 2008 and faced intense backlash when named Mozilla CEO in 2014, resigning after about 10–11 days amid employee and user protests a...
In 2025 independent testing and specialist guides repeatedly identify Tor, Brave, and Firefox (and Firefox forks like LibreWolf) as the strongest mainstream options for fingerprint and tracker resista...
Discord collects a broad set of personal data categories: , and it makes that collection central to how the service functions . The company offers controls and legal bases for processing such data, an...
Brave and Firefox repeatedly appear in 2025 vendor and review roundups as leading choices for everyday privacy, with Brave praised for built‑in ad/tracker blocking and Firefox lauded as the most priva...
Tor Browser in 2025 blocks or standardizes many high‑entropy vectors—canvas reads are blocked/standardized, WebGL readPixels is disabled or hard‑ened, fonts are limited with fallback lists, and timing...
IronFox is a privacy‑focused fork of Mull built on Firefox’s codebase, positioning itself as a “secure, hardened” browser that emphasizes configuration and minimal telemetry . Brave and mainstream Fir...
A number of open‑source browsers explicitly pursue the “security‑hardened” model exemplified by IronFox — common choices are hardened Firefox forks like LibreWolf and toolchains such as arkenfox, plus...
Brave, Tor/Mullvad-derived browsers, and Firefox (including forks like LibreWolf) are the most-cited 2025 choices for strongest tracker and fingerprinting protection; tests such as EFF’s Cover Your Tr...
Browser and OS-level bugs have repeatedly allowed attackers to bypass Tor and learn a user’s real IP — a notable example is the 2017 “TorMoil” flaw that could cause Tor Browser on macOS and Linux to c...
In 2025, mainstream private modes differ mainly by what they block (third‑party cookies, known trackers, fingerprinting scripts) and how—list‑based blocking and isolation (Firefox ETP) versus aggressi...