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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
publicly states it adheres to a strict but also says it will comply with delivered under applicable laws and jurisdictions, because the company operates under law . That position means NordVPN claims ...
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 ...
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...
emerges in the reporting as the best balance of polished mobile experience and seamless cross‑device syncing, offering built‑in PGP, secure and unified inbox features that reviewers and the vendor hig...
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...
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...
is widely regarded in 2026 as a high-security, privacy-focused VPN: it runs from , implements strong encryption and modern protocols, and has undergone independent audits and third‑party testing that ...
have undergone independent no-logs and infrastructure audits in recent years and have published audit findings, but the ease of downloading full, independent audit reports differs: and have publicly r...
No reliable public source in the provided reporting gives a definitive percentage of Signal’s infrastructure that is hosted on ; and reporting around the say the app uses multiple hyperscalers and fra...
(OCR) converts images of typed, printed or handwritten text into machine-readable text and is central to digitizing documents for search, analysis and automation . Modern OCR blends classical pattern-...
When governments roll out mandatory for adult content, measurable and rapid shifts appear in VPN demand and in site-origin traffic: VPN sign‑ups and use typically spike (sometimes dramatically), domes...
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...