6 Best Internet Browsers to Protect Your Privacy
Every website you visit is tracking you in one form or another. Usually, these are cookies on the site – those small blocks of data that are used to remember your preferences. But things start to go awry when sites use ad trackers, third-party cookies, and now fingerprinting.
Third party cookies are cookies that are inserted by other companies such as Google, Facebook or advertising companies. They are used to follow you from one site to another, creating a profile that can be used to serve ads. These cookies even track your device’s location.
Fingerprints are a relatively new online privacy threat that allows businesses to recognize your fingerprint information. This could be your browser version, type, operating system, time zone, location, plugins, fonts, and more. There is so much data here that the aggregate data can be used to identify a single user.
So what can you do about it? If you want to go nuclear, you can create your own tracking blocker using your Raspberry Pi . Or you can install privacy extensions like Decentraleyes , uBlock Origin, or DuckDuckGo . But first, you should start with a browser that already has good privacy features built in (we’re afraid it’s not Google Chrome).