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Chromium, Tor browser, Brave, Epic, Torch, Comodo Dragon and Opera shouldn’t be left behind. They block cookies and ads while allowing extensions that keep trackers at bay.
Not all browsers offer the exact same extensions, but Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are the two most popular browsers, and the ones I focus on here. Regardless of which browser you use, a pack of extensions can increase your privacy by decreasing your exposure to trackers, as well as have the welcome side effect of boosting your security.
I’ve included links for both Chrome and Firefox, along with alternatives to our favorites, if they exist. Everything you do online—from browsing to shopping to using social networks—is tracked, typically as behavioral or advertising data. But browser extensions are simple, generally free add-ons that you can use to slow down or break this type of data collection, without completely ruining your experience of using the internet.
- To be honest though, these are relatively minor niggles in what is overall a comprehensive package.
- It might also take some people a bit of reading to find out what exactly the difference is between syncing and backing-up, since the two functions overlap in many ways.
- Various types of backup include Full (self-explanatory), Differential , Incremental and Update, where the previous data is simply overwritten with the new data.
- BackItUp and RecueAgent alone are worth the price of admission.
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We’d like to see syncing options and a version of Vivaldi for mobile devices – both are apparently "in the works" – and fewer entries preinstalled in the browser’s Bookmarks. Also, some elements seem like works in progress rather than finished features. As for other browsers, Apple’s Safari isn’t bad when it comes to privacy, but it lacks wide support for popular browser extensions.
Edge is based on Chromium and will work with the bulk of the Chrome extensions in this article, but Edge has its share of privacy issues. Brave is one of the more popular privacy-first browsers, but even it isn’t free of privacy-related controversies. The Tor Browser is the go-to for anonymity, especially in censored countries, but it’s unusable for most people as a daily browser. Dozens of other lower-profile browsers exist, but few get the security updates and support that most of us need in the software we use all day.