We don’t need to be the ones to tell you this, but we will say it anyway:
There are a lot of internet browsers out there today.
Besides the common ones that you know, mobile phone OEMs have even developed a habit of bundling their devices with in-house browsers out of the box too. This does more to drive up the number of them that you had to choose from before.
In this case, it becomes extra difficult to choose which ones work best for you with safety and privacy in mind. Worry no more. Here are the top picks:
1 Safari Browser
Apple got far in their software and hardware game not only by offering some of the bestdevices but also building some of the most secure apps. They are also known to be a huge advocate for privacy – a concept that is not lost on their Safari browser too.
To start with is the Intelligent Tracking Protection in Safari which uses an in-built AI to prevent marketers from installing tracking cookies when you visit some webpages. The browser is also well-equipped against browser fingerprinting techniques, just as much
as it is effective against social widget tracking.
All that, and we have not even mentioned the private mode of browsing.
2 Firefox
Out of the box, Firefox might not be the best browser for security and privacy. What you might not have considered is that the developers have built support for that into the
options tab. All you have to do is head over to the Settings dashboard and you come out with one of the most secure browsers on the internet.
Of course, there is a Private browsing mode here too. While that would prevent the logging of your history and block cookies, though, your ISP and/ or school/ work system administrator can still see what you are doing on the internet.
You can prevent that by downloading a VPN to encrypt your connection in such cases.
3 Tor
The Onion Router Browser, known as the Tor browser for short, has enjoyed fame in the browser privacy and security market for a long time now. If you ask us, that is befitting for a browser that is constantly trying its best to throw anyone tracking you off
your trail.
When a user accesses the Tor browser, the entry node takes their request (search or web address) and sends it to the middle node. At the middle note, this data is stripped of all identifying information: from the IP address of the user to the kind of computer
they are accessing the web with, as well as their ISP.
Afterward, this data is sent to the exit node (target server) which neither knows there the internet query originated from, or who sent it.
This way, the user is always kept isolated from their internet data.
4 Brave Browser
It would be wrong for us to have Firefox on this list and not Brave. After all, one of the developers that worked with Mozilla in the creation of their browser is the head developer for this one.
To get where it is today, this browser has undergone a series of teardowns and rebuilds from scratch. This is so the developers can ensure they are not just patching problems that they need to fix from the base.
To that end, we have seen the inclusion of features such as ad-blocking, HTTPs Everywhere, third-party cookie blocking and script blocking, among others, on the Brave Browser
5 Any Browser
No, this is not the name of a specific browser. We mean any browser at all.
If that is so, why did we go through the hassles of making a list, right?
Well, the browsers above this section have been/ can be specially tweaked for advanced user safety and security right out of the box. For the others, though, you will have to download a VPN to continue using them safely.
The VPN your internet connection through a series of servers, ensuring your data is not visible to even your ISP.
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