Avoid The Hack: 6 Best Privacy Browser Picks for Windows

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Microsoft Edge Landing Page

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Microsoft Edge

Microsoft's brand new web browser.

Microsoft Edge especially sucks for privacy - even the "new and improved" Microsoft Edge powered by the Chromium browser engine.

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Mozilla Firefox Landing Page

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Mozilla Firefox

Get the browsers that put your privacy first — and always have

Many tweaks, both basic, and advanced, should be made before Firefox can be considered a private browser. While vanilla - or otherwise un-configured - Firefox is arguably better for privacy than Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, Firefox doesn't come especially configured for optimal (or maximum) user privacy out-the-box. This isn't a difficult task and just takes a chunk of time.

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mullvad.net

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Mullvad Browser

The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s produced to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network.

Similar to the Tor browser, the Mullvad browser provides solid tracking and fingerprinting protection. Mullvad browser removes all telemetry and enables private browsing by default. uBlock Origin comes pre-installed as the default ad/tracker blocker.

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LibreWolf Landing Page

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LibreWolf

LibreWolf, the community-maintained fork of Librefox: a privacy and security-focused browser.

LibreWolf appears to keep up with the latest stable Firefox source code. Despite the developers' impressive speed of releasing new versions, note that Librewolf is not affiliated with Mozilla.

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Brave Landing Page
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Brave

Fast and secure, ad and tracker blocking browser.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Brave has a native adblocker ("shields") enabled by default. Brave proxies all/any requests to Google, effectively substituting Google Services with "Brave Services." For example, when "Safe Browsing" is enabled, Brave proxies the request to the Google Safe Browsing service.

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Pale Moon Landing Page

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Pale Moon

Pale Moon is an Open Source, Mozilla-derived web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux, focusing on efficiency and ease of use.

Pale Moon definitely gives an old-school browser vibe that may throw some users off (or make you reminisce about the good ol' days), but it is highly customizable with many themes and add-ons available; its add-on directory has "legacy" versions of uBlock Origin and uMatrix configured to work with Pale Moon's Goanna engine.

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Ungoogled Chromium Landing Page

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Ungoogled Chromium

A Google Chromium variant for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and...

Ungoogled Chromium strips Google components, plugins, and services from the source code, preventing the browser from directly communicating with Google's servers. While the regular Chromium browser does not "phone home" arguably as much as Google Chrome, it still communicates often with Google servers in the background.

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Tor Browser Landing Page
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Tor Browser

Tor is free software for enabling anonymous communication.
Pricing:
- Open Source
The Brave Browser also has a "Tor" tabs feature, which provides some additional privacy by using the Tor network as a proxy. However, using Brave' Tor Tab feature does not provide the same level of privacy as using the actual Tor browser; users needing or wanting a "true" anonymous browser for anonymous browsing should use Tor.

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