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Virtual network extending a single private network across a public network like the Internet, appearing to users as a private network
Viewing a .onion page itself is not universally illegal, but it carries legal and technical risks: multiple guides say Tor browsing and visiting onion sites can be lawful while many onion pages host i...
Brave Search and the Brave browser pursue privacy by not profiling searches, building an independent index instead of relying on Google/Bing, and collecting contribution data only via opt‑in, privacy‑...
Tor prevents an ISP from reading the contents of web requests or learning the final sites visited because traffic is encrypted and routed through multiple relays . However, ISPs can usually tell that ...
DuckDuckGo’s public-facing claim is consistent across multiple help pages and analyses: , using only ephemeral technical data to deliver results and fight abuse, then discarding it . Independent repor...
Law enforcement typically does not arrest someone “because of an IP address” alone; instead, IP data is used as an investigative lead that, after legal process and corroboration, can produce warrants,...
DuckDuckGo’s published policy states it does not save IP addresses or unique identifiers alongside searches and “never log IP addresses or any unique identifiers to disk” . The company does perform ep...
Privacy-respecting alternatives to Tor for finding or accessing adult content fall into two broad families: mainstream platforms and niche/third‑party delivery methods — both offer varying privacy tra...
A website reliably detects a download when its server receives HTTP requests for a resource or when client-side analytics run while rendering content, so there is no perfect client-side way to stop a ...
VPN logs and court orders can and do lead to deanonymization of users who combine VPNs with Tor in many real-world scenarios, but success depends on who controls what logs and whether an adversary can...
For hiding the fact of which sites are visited from a local ISP, a multi-hop VPN scheme often branded as “Secure Core” gives clearer protection because the ISP only sees an encrypted tunnel to the VPN...
For users in 2025 aiming to balance privacy, usability, and features, mobile devices generally offer stronger, built‑in privacy controls and biometric protections but trade off extension flexibility a...