Privacy browsers

If you only want a VPN to keep your web browsing away from prying eyes, then “privacy browsers” may be your best choice

As Google Chrome rolls out measures to prevent ad and tracker blockers such as uBlock Origin from working – Google is an advertising company, after all – more privacy-conscious internet users are turning to more secure browser choices. But how do they work and which should you choose? That’s what we aim to cover here. VPN in your browser As we cover in the reviews, many VPN providers also provide browser extensions, which may or may not require that you have the main app running in order to use them. While some VPN extensions simply provide a browser-based control system for your desktop VPN, most will only send traffic from the browser itself via the VPN network. Technically, a “VPN” that only reroutes traffic from your browser is, in fact, a proxy; for…

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