A curated list of awesome private web browsing tools, projects, software, ideas, and resources.
Accepting all contributions that surface useful content on the topic of private web browsers and technologies.
- Vivaldi: "Privacy is not dead. You have choices in browsers and search engines."
- The Browser Company: building "A browser equipped for the way we use the internet in 2021."
- Brave Browser: "3x faster than Chrome. Better protection from Google and Big Tech."
- Tor Browser: Firefox-based browser that connects to Tor network.
- Apple: Apple's whitepaper on Safari's privacy by design approach.
- Google Safe Browsing: Safe Browsing gives users the ability to protect themselves from multiple types of unsafe sites and applications.
- Chrome Developers: Design document on Google Chrome's security sandbox.
- Chrome Developers: User-Agent reduction in Chrome Privacy Sandbox.
- Menlo Remote Browser: routes all online activity through a remote cloud-based browser
- uBlock Origin: "wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature."
- AdBlock Plus: "Surf the web with no annoying ads"
- Ghostery: "Browse Fast, Block Ads & Trackers with Ghostery Privacy Suite"
- Disconnect: "Protect yourself from malicious internet tracking, ads, web content, and other privacy threats."
- NoScript: "allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice"
- OttoJS: "Runtime Third-Party JavaScript Security."
- Google Research: Picasso: Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting for Web Clients
- @antoinevastel: "Picasso based canvas fingerprinting"
- FingerprintJS: "How Does Canvas Fingerprinting Work?"
- AdTechMadness: "Overview of Google’s Picasso"
- Dali.js: Dali.js, Picasso-like device attestation payload
- Am I Unique: basic information a user's browser configuration and how trackable it is
- EFF CoverYourTracks: EFF project that allows you to understand how easy it is to identify and track your browser
- BrowserLeaks: gallery of testing tools that show what browser data can be leaked
- DeviceInfo: web browser security testing, privacy testing, and troubleshooting tool.
- Privacy Analyzer: tool lists information that any website, advertisement, and widget can collect from your web browser
- User-Agent Switcher: Spoofs & Mimics User-Agent strings.
- Cookie-Editor: extension to quickly create, edit and delete cookies without leaving your tab
- Jesse Li: "Detecting incognito mode in Chrome 76 with a timing attack"
- FingerprintJS: "Incognito Mode Detection: Detecting Visitors Who Browse in Private Mode"
- ja3: JA3 is a method for creating SSL/TLS client fingerprints for threat intelligence.
- Salesforce Blog: "TLS Fingerprinting with JA3 and JA3S"
- jarm: JARM is an active Transport Layer Security (TLS) server fingerprinting tool.
- ja3er: ja3er is a project about collecting and sharing JA3 hashes.
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism on Wikipedia: Shoshana Zuboff suggests that Big Tech business models represent a new form of capitalist accumulation, "surveillance capitalism".
- Vivaldi: "Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising"
- Matomo: Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy.
- Plausible: Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.
- Umami: A simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
- Aurora: 100% Cookie-Free Open Website Analytics. Collect Anonymous Data.
- Nullitics: Zero-effort open-source cheap analytics.
- Ackee: Self-hosted website analytics.
- Shynet: Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.
- Pirsch: Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source alternative to Google Analytics.
- OnSiteJS - Privacy-conscious web analytics.