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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...
Proton’s public position: as a Swiss company it says it only must obey Swiss court orders and “to date we have not received any court order” for ProtonVPN — its transparency report shows denials of fo...
Proton VPN’s Secure Core is a provider-controlled “multihop” setup that routes traffic through at least two VPN servers (one in a privacy-friendly, secure jurisdiction) before it leaves Proton’s netwo...
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...
By mid‑2025 several Western jurisdictions had active mandatory age‑verification rules for adult websites: the UK’s Online Safety Act began enforcing “strong age checks” on July 25, 2025 , France enact...
Cloudflare’s own reporting and multiple security outlets document a rapid succession of record-breaking mitigations in 2025, culminating in a December claim that Cloudflare blocked a 29.7 Tbps DDoS pe...
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...
Proton VPN, a Switzerland‑based service, reports receiving dozens of legal requests in recent years and says it has denied all such orders because Swiss law does not force VPNs to keep connection logs...
Available search results show multiple sites with “Blender” in their name that are established community outlets (blender.org, BlenderNation, BlenderArtists, BlenderToday) and at least one site called...
Audited, open-source browsers with regular security updates and enterprise support do exist: Mozilla Firefox (including Firefox for Enterprise/ESR) is open-source, receives regular audits/patches and ...
Yes—open-source alternatives to Audacity exist in 2025, including full DAWs like Ardour and several waveform editors and web tools listed in open-source roundups; TechRadar and multiple directories co...
The 2026 PDC World Darts Championship final is not a BBC broadcast in the UK: Sky Sports holds UK television rights, while the match is available free in some other territories and via paid internatio...
A handful of public DNS services have subjected their privacy promises to external scrutiny: Cloudflare explicitly commissions annual KPMG audits and publishes reports about its “no-logging” handling ...
CES 2025 presented itself as a show where "AI everywhere" was more marketing thesis than finished reality, with big companies pushing foundational chips, consumer devices and home appliances framed ar...
Spotify faced a backlash after its 2024 Wrapped edition for leaning on AI content and producing results many users called inaccurate; Spotify publicly acknowledged mistakes and introduced changes ahea...
Free VPNs can work for casual privacy needs but vary sharply in speed, data limits, and trustworthiness; major reviewers name Proton VPN, Hotspot Shield, PrivadoVPN and others as top free options whil...
Calyx is not mentioned in the available browser roundups and reviews provided in the supplied sources; those sources instead name mainstream browsers like Safari, Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Edge and nich...
Proton VPN’s Secure Core layers a VPN-to-VPN path that encrypts traffic twice and routes it through hardened servers in privacy-friendly countries before exiting to the public internet, aiming to redu...
No single “best” AI for text exists; which tool wins depends on your goals (long-form creative prose, business writing, coding help, or enterprise text analysis) and trade‑offs like cost, context wind...
Available reporting frames “this site” generally as part of a wider trend: modern websites are evolving from static placeholders into business-facing, data-driven hubs that use personalization, AI, an...