Using a browser is essential to do research or visit a site on the Internet. Whatever device you use for your research, there is always a default browser that is installed. Nevertheless, you have the freedom to download another to use a browser that better respects your privacy.
If the most famous are Chromium or Firefoxyou have new browsers that are more practical. However, if you do not know which one to choose in this year 2024, you will find in this article some proposals.
TOR: The best browser for privacy
With the browser Toryou currently have the safest way to browse the internet.
Indeed, meaning The Onion Router, the Tor browser uses the Tor network. It is a network that uses a series of network relays that are used to anonymize and encrypt the connection of the user user.
In addition, the Tor browser block access to anyone who wishes to follow your internet connection or the websites you visit. It is precisely for this reason that, in the countries in which internet activity is very supervised, different categories of people such as journalists use it.
Regarding the security and the privacyyou should remember that the TOR browser has a function of falsification of the IP address. Indeed, thanks to this function, it is impossible on the website on which you are to know your real IP address and by ricochet your real geographical situation. So when you sail via the Tor browser, you have the impression that you are in another country.
In addition, if there are certain services or sites to which you cannot have access from your country, thanks to this function of the browser, it is much easier to get there.
Likewise, it is an autonomous, light browser that requires no installation. You can easily copy it to a USB key and use it on other devices. Unfortunately, the Tor browser does not fully satisfy. Indeed, it slows the navigation experience.
Moreover, Only the activity of your browser is protected. This means that activity in other applications on your device are not anonymized or protected.
Brave: a browser that protects your privacy
Available on Android and iOS as well as under Linux, OS X and Windows, The browser brave is an open source browser that was created thanks to Brendan Eich in 2016. Bowder based on the Chromium engine, Brave is light with a loading speed Rather remarkable pages.
In addition, taking into account his performance to follow and block advertisementsthis browser allows reduced consumption of system resources.
Likewise, the Brave browser blocks cookies by default and has an HTTPS Everywhere extension.
With regard to security and privacy, we can say that the Brave browser effectively protects its user, because it blocks all trackers as well as all advertisements. But thanks to the browser preferences panel, you can allow all these possibilities.
In addition, with the browser, you can Install then use extensions. But extensions such as PDF Viewer, Torrent Viewer, 1Password, Metamask, Dashlane, Bitwarden and Honey are not allowed.
Even more interesting with this browser, you have tabs with rather pleasant features. This is the case, for example, of the functionality seen tabs. Thanks to the latter, simply pass the pointer from your mouse to a tab and it is displayed on the big screen. You can also define by session the number of tabs that must be displayed.
Epic: an open source secure and private web browser
Also an open source browser based on the chromium engine, Epic was developed in 2010 by Hidden Reflex. Like the previous browser, Epic block ads But also monitoring codes.
Therefore, he Promotes a loading speed of highly high pages. Regarding security and privacy, Epic is a browser that only works in private navigation mode, even without its user doing any adjustment whatsoever.
In addition, when you close this browser, it always deletes all the navigation data by default. But when it is open, it only keeps navigation data for a short time.
Do you know other browsers who protect your privacy? Share them in comments!
This article was written by Pasqual Ferrero, Netlinking specialist on Coder.com.