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The privacy implications of browser fingerprinting and its use by advertisers, law enforcement, and other entities.
DuckDuckGo’s Fire Button is a one-tap purge designed to erase browsing traces such as cookies, caches, open tabs, and permissions, but it intentionally does not remove certain user-chosen data — notab...
Brave and LibreWolf both pitch privacy as the primary selling point, but they take fundamentally different routes: Brave is a polished, Chromium‑based product that bundles user-facing features and rev...
DuckDuckGo is primarily a privacy-focused search engine that does not itself maintain a desktop browser profile of cache and cookies, so on desktop platforms the task of securely wiping cache, cookies...
Browser vendors ship varying default privacy features while third-party tools like DuckDuckGo offer a bundled extension/app model that layers protections; the trade-offs are control, technical scope, ...
There is broad, well-documented use of browser fingerprinting by advertisers, fraud teams and some law‑enforcement partners to link online sessions to persistent browser profiles , but the sources pro...
The Epic Privacy Browser is a Chromium-based browser that defaults to always-on private browsing, blocks a wide array of trackers and fingerprinting techniques, and offers a built-in encrypted proxy/V...
DuckDuckGo’s public design is to avoid tracking or storing searches, but deleting what users think of as “history” depends on whether it’s the DuckDuckGo app’s local data or the browser’s saved data; ...