Best Privacy Browser

In the world of Internet and Technology, Privacy and Security is a MYTH.

Privacy is golden. What people don’t know, people can’t ruin.

In this article, we are going to talk about PRIVACY. Yes. We have heard a lot about privacy in the past few days or months or years. So before moving ahead with the solution and security concern, Before diving deep into Best Privacy Browser, let’s have a quick look at some major security breaches in the recent past.

1. The Indian government banned the Chinese apps which are likely to compromise user’s privacy. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has said that they will localize all user’s data by 2019. We have already crossed the mid of 2020 and these steps have not been taken yet.
   In recent months, Check Point Research teams discovered multiple vulnerabilities within the TikTok application. The vulnerabilities described in this research allow attackers to do the following:

• Get hold of TikTok accounts and manipulate their content
• Delete videos
• Upload unauthorized videos
• Make private “hidden” videos public
• Reveal personal information saved on the account such as private email addresses.

Check Point Research informed TikTok developers about the vulnerabilities exposed in this research and a solution was responsibly deployed to ensure its users can safely continue using the TikTok app.

1. Google has been accused by a few lawyers and they have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion against Google that accuses it of illegally collecting information during those private browsing sessions (Incognito). If successful, the lawsuit is looking for damages of $5,000 for each individual who has used incognito mode since June 1, 2016.
   Explaining in simpler terms, If you open an incognito browsing session in the Chrome browser, Google displays a message which states that you can “browse privately” and continues to confirm that other people using the device cannot see your browsing activity. While this message does say that downloads and bookmarks will be saved, browsing history, cookies, site data, and form inputs will not. The lawsuit, however, seeks to argue that Google “tracks and collects consumer browsing history,” and other web activity, regardless of the safeguards the user takes.
   In response to this, Google has had to add an option for the user by enabling, any website can’t track your cookies across the web. Refer below images that clearly indicate the change done by google after the lawsuit filed.

Now coming to our main point, if you look closely at the above images, they are clearly stating that Chrome won’t save your information BUT Your activity might still be visible to Websites you visit, Your employer or school, or Your internet service provider. The same guidelines are stated by the Firefox browser as well.

You know that dream where you suddenly realize you’re stark naked? You’re living it whenever you open your browser.

The world’s leading search engine’s former CEO: “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”

Let’s have a look at How you’re tracked?

1. You’re tracked by Google, by your ISP, your government, and hundreds of data collectors while in incognito or other private browsing modes. Your browsing history is easily accessible (via your DNS cache) upon incognito window close.
2. Behind a VPN, your real IP address can leak through certain types of WebRTC calls. Even if your IP address is hidden, tens of thousands of websites use fingerprinting techniques such as accessing image canvas data to track you.
3. Unfortunately, any browser addon has access to your entire browsing and search history and while many may protect you from some trackers, they often collect and sell your data to others — so browser addons may reduce your privacy and security rather than enhance it.
4. Visiting the top 50 websites will install over 3,000 tracking files on your computer. Your ISP can now save and sell your browsing history.
5. Over 80% of websites use one or more tracking tools. Researches have found an average of six per website with that number rising to a dozen or more on larger websites. New FCC regulations allow ISPs such as Verizon, Comcast, and all others to both save and sell your browsing history.

On one hand, we all know how essential our privacy is, and on the other hand, nothing is hidden to the government or ISP.

So here we are, with a very exciting solution to get your self hidden from all secret tracking services including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and your ISP.

You Are The Product, waiting to be sold to advertisers.

Epic Privacy Browser: The Ultimate Solution

Download Link:

– PC: https://www.epicbrowser.com/

– Android: Here

– iOS: Here

The first web browser built on Chromium (like Google’s Chrome browser) engineered to protect our privacy.

We have seen how we can be tracked so easily by our Govt and how browsers can sell our data. So why Epic browser is not like any other browser? Let’s have a look at the key features of this browser: let us see why the epic browser is the best privacy browser.

• Other browsers’ private browsing modes are ineffective. When you close your incognito window, your browsing history is still on your local computer and your whole session was tracked and saved by Google. Epic is in always-on “private browsing mode”, so on close of Epic, all browsing data is deleted (while you’re browsing as little as possible is stored). Epic has removed all Google tracking and blocks hundreds of other companies from tracking you. If you turn on Epic’s encrypted proxy, you have protection from snooping by hackers, trackers, your ISP, government, and employer as well.
• Whenever we browse the internet on Chrome or Mozilla, in the name of the better browsing experience, they store a lot of data in our local computer DB as well as in browsers’ cache. This definitely gave us suggestions and better experience, but when it comes to privacy, this stored data can say a lot. To defeat this, here are a few parameters which are enabled by default in Epic:
• No History.
• No Web Cache.
• No DNS Pre-Fetching.
• No DNS Cache.
• No Third-Party Cookies.
• No Rogue Extensions.
• No Spell-Check.
• No Autofill.
• No Password Saving.
• No Google Sync.
• No Automated “Most Visited Websites”.
• No Auto-Suggest.
• No Alternate Error Pages.
• Have you ever heard about WebRTC? If no, then let’s get some basic idea about this. WebRTC is basically an open framework for the web that enables Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities in the browser. It supports video, voice, and generic data to be sent between peers, allowing developers to build powerful voice- and video communication solutions. Browsers are using WebRTC APIs to provide such services. By doing so, your IP address can be leaked even if you are using encrypted proxy or VPN. Epic blocks certain types of WebRTC calls that can leak your IP address.
• Most of us have always seen various kinds of advertisements while surfing the internet. Some are just random advertisements. But if you observe closely, you will find that many of the ads will be familiar to you. Those might be of the product you search on Amazon or Flipkart or might be from your google search. This is because of the trackers. All the websites you are visiting are using your cookies, cache, and browser history to personalized your ad experience. Epic includes built-in protection against thousands of Tracking Scripts, Tracking Cookies & Other Tracking Agents, Ad Networks, Cryptocurrency Mining Scripts (such as Coinhive), dangerous Malvertising, and Third-Party Widgets.
• Whenever you search something on google, google search for those keywords in all the websites hosted on the internet and return the results. Whenever you open the website from that result, google passes your entered search to that website, and the website shows you result accordingly. In technical terms, this is called header data. This data contains some sensitive pieces of information like your search, your IP, DNS resolution, and many more. This will expose your data to third party websites. Epic doesn’t send data about search terms you’ve entered to other websites when you click on links from a search engine.
• Have you ever heard of browser fingerprinting? It’s okay if you haven’t, since almost nobody else has ever heard of it, either. Browser fingerprinting is an incredibly accurate method of identifying unique browsers and tracking online activity. Browser fingerprinting is a powerful method that websites use to collect information about your browser type and version, as well as your operating system, active plugins, timezone, language, screen resolution, and various other active settings. The interesting fact in this is, the fingerprints can be used to fully or partially identify individual users or devices even when cookies are turned off. Epic blocks dozens of tracking scripts that fingerprint you. Epic also blocks widely used fingerprinting methods such as accessing image canvas (which is why WhatsApp’s desktop app doesn’t work in Epic), font canvas, and audio context data. Epic blocks ultrasound signals which are sent from websites to be picked up by your mobile phone in order to coordinate tracking.
• We all know that Govt has already banned numerous websites accused of piracy and pornography. Still, many of us are still accessing it using proxy and VPN. Both VPNs and proxies enable a higher degree of privacy than you might otherwise have, allowing you to access the internet anonymously by hiding your IP in various ways. But still, your original IP can be traced back via your proxy server and you can get exposed!!! Epic’s encrypted proxy when turned on hides your IP address and encrypts your browsing. DNS requests are also routed through the encrypted proxy. This protects your browsing history from your ISP, your employer, your government, data collectors, and other network snoops.

To know more about Epic Browser and it’s Founder Alok Bhardwaj

Alok Bhardwaj’ Ted Talk

Alok Bhardwaj’s Ted Talk

Extra read More About Privacy Browser Myths:

Common Myths about Private Browsing

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