What the data broker industry is doing with your personal information — new privacy laws, enforcement actions, breaches, and plain-language explainers, as well as online privacy tips.
Web Browsers
The best ad blocker for Chrome used to be an easy answer: uBlock Origin. But that's no longer an option. Google's Manifest V3 transition removed the full version of uBlock Origin from Chrome, and there's no tweak that brings it back.
Yes. Brave is safe, and out of the box it blocks more tracking than any other mainstream browser. That's the short answer, and it holds up under independent testing. The longer answer is why this question gets asked so much: Brave has a genuinely excellent privacy engine attached to a company with a habit of monetization stumbles (affiliate-link...
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Yes. DuckDuckGo is safe, and it is genuinely more private than Google. Its privacy policy is one sentence a normal person can read: "We don't save or share your search or browsing history when you search on DuckDuckGo or use our apps and extensions." That's a real, structural difference from Google, whose entire business is the profile it builds on you.
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