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Buying credit-card data on the dark web is a well-documented criminal market: researchers have found millions of stolen cards listed (NordVPN’s analysis counted about 4–6 million in some studies) with...
Buying usable credit cards on dark‑web markets for a fixed fee like “$100” is not a reliable, lawful shortcut — stolen card data is plentiful and often cheap (sometimes under $10–$20 per card), but pr...
A small set of privacy-focused general search engines—Swisscows, MetaGer, Mojeek, DuckDuckGo/Startpage and privacy metasearch tools like SearX—offer the strongest protections when used to look up adul...
Dark‑web markets and carding forums continue to host millions of stolen payment records: researchers found roughly 4–4.5 million cards for sale in recent analyses, often priced from about $1 up to $17...
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...
There is clear, repeated reporting that large caches of stolen credit card numbers appear online — sometimes in unsecured cloud buckets, on dark‑web marketplaces, or leaked by malware — exposing milli...
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...
You cannot find a legitimate, public website that lawfully sells “Visa cards” on the dark web; instead, multiple security researchers and reporters document marketplaces selling stolen card details an...
YouTube alternatives and tactics that claim to let users watch age-restricted videos without AI-based identity checks fall into two broad categories: third-party front-ends and geolocation/IP workarou...
If you connect to a VPN first and then open Tor (“Tor over VPN” or “Onion over VPN”), the VPN provider can see that you are opening an encrypted connection to the Tor network (specifically the Tor gua...
Several VPN providers have demonstrably complied with government or law‑enforcement requests, producing records that contradicted marketing claims of total anonymity; notable, documented examples incl...
Multiple specialized carding sites and a few large general darknet marketplaces dominated credit-card data listings in 2024–2025: researchers and vendor trackers point repeatedly to card-focused shops...
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...
Qwant positions itself as a privacy-first French search engine that “does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe” and is widely listed among top private s...
Free, secure browsers most often recommended as alternatives to niche projects like IronFox include Brave, Firefox (and hardened forks), Tor Browser and privacy-focused Chromium forks; reviewers repea...
Tor hides IP addresses by wrapping a user’s traffic in multiple layers of encryption and sending it through a chain of volunteer relays (entry, middle, exit), so no single relay knows both who sent th...
Mullvad publishes technical audits, system-transparency papers and detailed infrastructure notes (including which nodes are owned or rented), but it does not publish regular transparency reports or a ...
Buying credit card data on the dark web is high-volume, low-cost, and high-risk: researchers estimate millions of cards leak to underground markets (Kaspersky’s 2.3 million estimate) and individual ca...
Dark‑web card shops often signal fraud through unusual seller behavior: newly created accounts, oversized “freebie” dumps used as marketing, and datasets that mix autogenerated or unrelated fields — a...
Mullvad does not publish a conventional transparency report and has said it has no plans to do so; reviewers note Mullvad cites lack of verifiable user data as the reason . Proton VPN publishes regula...