Safe Browsing: Privacy-Focused Internet Browsers for Better Protection

Internet browsers have come to give us an amazing internet experience. With tons of
them out there, one always wants to outdo the other in what it offers in terms of features
and perks. When we choose these internet browsers, though, we often forget one thing
that is just as important – our data privacy and security online.
If you do not think of this, the hackers/ marketers/ everyone out to get your data will.
Fortunately, some browsers are dedicated to making sure that this does not happen.

1. Safari

If it is not safe enough, best believe that Apple will not put it out there.
This is a company that is very big on their user data privacy and security – traits that
they have shown in how secure the products are.

For the Safari browser, the company has improved it so much with not only basic
browser security but with the aid of artificial intelligence systems too.
- The safari browser comes with an Intelligent Tracking Prevention system that prevents
marketers from retargeting and following you around with ads on the internet. The
machine-learning algorithm behind this helps to separate the third-party content that
would have been used for this kind of tracking from the other browsing data that you
generate

• - A private browsing mode is available which allows you to browse the internet without logging any history. Likewise, no cookies are saved on your browser during the internet session

• - Social widget tracking prevention ensures these widgets on websites cannot track you.
• Since it has been found that this can be used to track your internet activity even if you don’t click on them, such a preventive measure is important

• - Safari frustrates the tactics of webmasters and advertisers in combining different information about your unit for fingerprinting your browser and device across the web.

2. Firefox

If you have ever used Firefox before, you might not understand why it is also one of the
top-rated browsers for privacy and security. That is most likely because you were using
the browser as you downloaded it rather than tweaking it for better usage.
What you get out of the box is just like most other browsers out there. In the settings
dashboard, though, lies a goldmine of options that you can use to make the browser
better

• - Disable the Telemetry features so that the browser stops collecting data about your usage and interaction
• - Choose the level of privacy that you want in this browser. You have options between Standard, Strict and Custom.
• - The company has a privacy guide that you can go through so that you get even more security from using their browser.

3. Brave Browser

This is following Firefox directly since the lead developer on this project has once
worked with Mozella in the development of their Firefox browser. Thus, they have also
brought that knowledge and expertise here, besides their unique ideas.

In the years since its existence, this browser has been torn down and rebuilt a couple of
times. This shows you that the minds behind it would rather rebuild the browser from
scratch than patch issues that could come back to bite you in the back later.
Some of the top security features we love on the Brave browser are:
- Disabling of third-party cookie tracking and script tracking
- Inclusion of HTTPS everywhere to ensure you are always accessing a more secure
version of websites
- Unlike Mozilla, the Brave browser offers privacy and security features out of the box.
They can still be tweaked to taste too.
- Automatically protects the user against browser fingerprinting

4. The Onion Router

Many people know it as the Tor browser instead. No matter what you call this beautiful
piece of software, that takes nothing away from the security it has come to be known
for.

While some claims have come out to show that this browser is compromised in some
ways, it still holds well against many other browsers out there.

What fascinated us the mist about the Tor browser is its mode of operation:

• - It takes the user’s request at an entry node and forwards it to the middle node. This request could be a search query or to access a website/ platform on the internet

• - Once the data gets to the middle node, it is stripped of all identifying information. This means IP addresses, type of computer, Internet service provider, etc., are deleted from the data. What is left is a barebones data packet needed to execute the user’s request without giving up their identity

• - An exit node where the data gets out through to access the target server.

For those who do not know, Tor is like the direct big brother for Mozilla Firefox in the
privacy and security game. After all, they were developed by the same company, just for
different purposes.

5. DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser

Slowly, DuckDuckGo is starting to make a name for itself in the internet privacy and
security market. This has seen them take their expertise and goals to the creation of a
browser.

Although not as known as other browsers on this list, the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser
did not come to play either:
- The browser contains a third-party tracker blocker that is not bad at what it does. It even
shows you all that it has blocked.
- It forces HTTPs everywhere too, ensuring you are only accessing secure versions of
websites
- DuckDuckGo has a privacy-focused search engine of its own. Thus, you are not left at
the mercy of Google, Bing, and other search engines when you need to search.

Possible Problems with Secure Browsers

You will see that we have omitted commonly used browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, and Microsoft Edge from this list. That is because they pose a lot of security issues to
their users, even though they claim to be privacy-focused.

However, that does not mean the other browsers we have chosen in their stead are at
100% too.

If you were browsing via a public Wi-Fi network on any of those secure browsers, your
internet data will be exposed to network providers and hackers who know what to snoop
for. They can even use such an avenue to install malware onto your unit.

Likewise, picks like the Tor browser have been found to contain identifying bugs in the
past. The browsers entry node also stores information about you, so that could destroy
the privacy and anonymity you have been trying to build.

Why we have chosen them, though, is that they offer way much more protection than
the other picks in the internet browser market.

The good news is that you can beef up the privacy and security that they give you too.
Establishing a secure VPN connection before you go onto the web every time will
instantly give you that extra layer of security. Since a VPN passes your data through
multiple servers too (called tunneling), hackers or internet service providers won’t be
able to see what you are doing on the network. This works for public Wi-Fi connections too.

Conclusion

In this age and time, your data is very important.

Even if you are not using the data for anything on your own, you don’t want it to fall into
the wrong hands either. Unfortunately, many internet users are not aware of how much
data they are generating daily – and how much pretty much every company/ advertiser/
hacker out there wants to get their hands on such data.
It is left to you to step up to the challenge and ensure that they don’t mess up your
privacy plans.
If there was ever a good time to make the switch to secure browsers, it is today.

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