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The privacy implications of using different browsers, including data collection and telemetry.
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
(stock Fennec and the Fennec-FDroid variant) and IronFox diverge most sharply on and default hardening: IronFox ships with telemetry stripped and aggressive protections enabled by default, while Fenne...
’s official stance is straightforward: it designs its services so it does not hold search or browsing histories linked to individual users, which means it cannot hand over what it does not have, and i...
For most seeking raw speed and web-app compatibility, a Chromium-based browser ( or one of its forks such as , Edge, Thorium, Slimjet) will typically deliver the fastest real-world performance, at the...
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; ...