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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...
DuckDuckGo protects privacy primarily by blocking third‑party trackers, forcing HTTPS where available, offering a privacy‑focused search engine and optional browser/extension/ecosystem features that w...
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is presented as a cross-browser extension that bundles tracker blocking, HTTPS enforcement, and private search integration, and DuckDuckGo’s own testing compares extensio...
In 2025 Tor Browser substantially reduces the chance that websites or ordinary trackers can link your browsing to your real IP address or device fingerprint, because it routes traffic through multiple...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Court records and reporting show a small set of major VPNs have been legally tested by subpoenas or warrants, and some—most notably Private Internet Access (PIA)—could not produce user browsing logs i...
A purported dump of roughly 17.5 million Instagram records surfaced on underground forums and was flagged by cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes during dark‑web monitoring, with listings claiming scraped ...
Tor Browser is widely described in the available reporting as providing stronger fingerprint resistance and anonymity than DuckDuckGo’s browser; multiple reviews and technical write-ups state Tor bloc...
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...
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...
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...
Meta’s December 16, 2025 privacy-policy update does not introduce a new, blanket program to read all private DMs and retroactively mine past messages for AI training; Meta says it does not use the con...
In 2025, Tor Browser makes it materially harder for ordinary observers to link a visitor’s real IP or device to .onion sites by routing traffic through volunteer relays and stripping many browser iden...
Session Messenger stands out among secure messaging apps for combining default end-to-end encryption with a routing layer and a recent migration to its own blockchain to support node operations. Compa...
Allegations linking InfraGard to “gang stalking” circulate in activist blogs and petition sites but mainstream reporting and technical investigations focus on a separate, documented risk: a 2022–23 br...
DuckDuckGo’s browser and extensions block many third‑party trackers and force HTTPS but use a simpler, OS‑rendering-based architecture and allow some trackers (notably Microsoft trackers, per Brave’s ...