Keeping yourself
anonymous on the web is very difficult nowadays. As the popular search engines
like Google and Yahoo store so much of your personal information and even your
geographical location to show you the results. In this post, we are going to discuss
five browsers which offer the most secure and hassle-free route to browsing the
web in private.
List of Anonymous Web Browsers.
Key Features of Brave Browser.
- Brave defense is mainly concerned with advertising.
- It blocks the third party ads and cookies.
Brave immediately looks
and feels familiar because it’s built
using chromium, the same Google-developed an open-source browser framework that
powers Chrome. Brave’s icons have a different design, but if you click the menu
button, for example, you can’t help but notice how the core structure of Chrome
has barely changed.
This essentially makes
brave feel like the chrome browser you’re already comfortably familiar with,
except that it comes preinstalled with a strong collection of enhancements to
counter the internet’s privacy-invading tactics.
Brave’s defenses are
mainly concerned with advertising. The browser does a competent job of blocking
‘third party’ ads and cookies, where information about your activities on one
site can be tracked through to another –but doesn’t disable ‘useful’ cookies,
such as shopping baskets and preference settings. You can easily adapt the
level of protection from a panel within the browser’s standard settings page.
As well as avoiding some
of the trackings that go on while you traverse the web, this has the added
benefit of speeding things up. There’s no question that skipping the adverts
make pages download more quickly –there are simply fewer data to process.
However, this alone wouldn’t
be enough, largely because the Tor Browser can do so much more for your privacy
than block ads. Brave acknowledged this itself last summer and added a new
‘private window with Tor’ option, which is accessible from the main menu. This
means that when you want to browse in the utmost privacy, where even your ISP
can’t track you, Brave offers it at the flick of a switch.
If you take your private browsing extremely seriously, head straight for the Tor Browser.
Key Features of Tor Browser.
- Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance.
- Hides you from tracking even from your ISP.
This robustly private browser isn't just about ad-blocking (though it does that, too)–its aim is to totally maintain your privacy from the moment you launch it.
Tor hides your tracks
from even your ISP, by encrypting site requests at source and bouncing
encrypted data through anonymous, voluntarily run servers. Think of it as a VPN
that’s open-source and run like a peer-to-peer network, rather than by an
individual company.
Tor browser is based
on Firefox but has the Tor technology built-in, so you can perform private
browsing sessions without having to install Tor separately or use it across everything
you do on the internet.
Key Features of Epic Privacy Browser.
- Ads are blocked by default but not good as Brave and Tor.
- It has a built-in proxy service with nine proxy locations available.
There’s something ironic about a privacy browser that encourages you to enter your email address in order to stay updated on its development, but that’s what you see if you download Epic Privacy Browser from its own website. Once it’s installed, however, the privacy starts in earnest.
Ads are blocked by
default, though we found a few sites that snuck them under Epic’s radar but
were successfully spotted by Brave and Tor.
Epic has its own proxy
servers built-in, so you can make it look as if you’re visiting a website from
another country, should you wish to circumvent regional restrictions. There are
nine proxy locations available, including two in the US.
04. LibreFox | librefox.org
This is a version of Firefox that has had some of the basic privacy leaking elements switched off and a selection of add-ons included.
Although it saves you
the hassle of doing it yourself, there’s nothing here that you couldn’t
recreate with your own choice of privacy add-ons, if you already have a few
favorites.
05. Iridium | iridiumbrowser.de
Iridium is a stripped-down a version of Chrome that has all the unpleasant privacy-exposing bits of the
basic browser removed.
That’s only half the
story, though. It doesn’t make any efforts to block ads or hide your tracks,
though you could do this with the usual privacy add-ons.
If you want to create
your own private browser with your preferred add-ons, Iridium is a good
starting point. However, it isn’t the all-in-one solution that our award
winners offer.
Incognito or Private Browsing modes
If you only want
the local record of your browsing session deleted. However, while you could use
it to hide your browsing habits from your family, it won't escape the
all-seeing eyes of advertisers, your boss (if you’re online at work) or your
ISP.
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