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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...
Mullvad publicly and repeatedly states it keeps no activity logs and uses anonymous account numbers instead of emails; its policies state “we do not keep activity logs of any kind” and the site emphas...
in 2026 presents a strong, well-audited privacy posture: consistent independent audits, RAM-only servers, anonymous payment options, and a strict no-logs policy backed by public documentation and sour...
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...
’s 2025 no-logs claim is supported by a string of , an actual police search that reportedly yielded no user data, and public-facing policies and engineering choices designed to minimise retained metad...
Mullvad publicly and repeatedly states it “does not keep activity logs of any kind,” including IP addresses, DNS requests, connection timestamps, browsing activity, bandwidth, and session duration . I...
Several major VPN providers publish either warrant canaries, transparency reports that list law-enforcement or government data requests, or both. Examples documented in the available reporting include...
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...
Encrypted DNS via DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT) is widely supported by major public resolvers—Cloudflare, Google, NextDNS and others—but encryption alone does not remove the client's IP ...
Swedish law changed the temporary Covert Surveillance of Data Act (2020:62) so that, as Mullvad reports, covert surveillance powers that can access data on devices could apply indefinitely from 1 Apri...
Mullvad does not publish a routine transparency report and has told journalists it has no plans to start one because it says it holds no user data to disclose; critics and reviewers say a report would...
Mullvad does not use a warrant canary and does not publish a transparency report of law‑enforcement requests, according to PCMag’s 2024 review . Mullvad publicly described a 2023 Swedish police search...
Court records and reporting show multiple VPN providers have had their no-logs claims tested in court and by law enforcement; Private Internet Access (PIA) was subpoenaed in 2016/2017 and could not pr...
A privacy‑oriented browser is only one layer in a mobile privacy stack; the operating system, , , and materially change an adversary’s ability to observe or link activity. as an OS plus a ‑based VPN (...
does not impose a blanket requirement for VPN providers like to log users’ traffic or connection metadata, and Mullvad publicly maintains a strict no-logging policy that it says left police with nothi...
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...
Top privacy browsers frequently named as not storing search history include , , , and several hardened Firefox forks (e.g., LibreWolf/Mullvad). Vendors and reviews agree that some browsers intentional...
— the longstanding mobile build of — and IronFox — described in reporting as a fork of the DivestOS Mull Browser — occupy different places in the privacy/browser ecosystem: Fennec is essentially Firef...
The consensus among 2025 reviews: Brave and Tor remain top picks for different privacy goals — Brave for fast, built-in tracker-blocking and private search options, Tor for strong anonymity at the cos...
A small group of mainstream VPNs have published independent audits that specifically examine and verify elements of their no‑logs claims — prominent names include NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Proton VPN, Surf...