Private Browsing
Action Tip: If online privacy is a concern, you probably need to change your web browser.
While you surf the internet you’re being watched. If you use Chrome, by far the most popular browser, Google is watching. Safari reports to Apple and Edge to Microsoft. Those three browsers make up eighty-five percent of the user market.
The giant tech companies give away their browsers so they can collect data on you, the user. Your habits on the worldwide web are the product they sell to advertisers. This is why when you search for dog food you see a multitude of ads for other dog-related products. Private or incognito browsing does not prevent all monitoring or tracking.
Many conservatives don’t like big tech’s “surveillance capitalism” or having their data used to make left-leaning corporations richer, but what can they do?
The Alternatives
Firefox
Firefox, a free and open-source browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation in 2004. The software had about 60 million downloads in the first six months and continued to grow in popularity, peaking at about one-third of all users in 2009. Today, it is the third most popular browser.
Firefox has Private Browsing which prevents recording of browsing data and deletes cookies after the browser is closed. Also, it doesn’t keep a record of files you download. The browser also has automatic enhanced tracking protection which, by default, blocks many known trackers. Firefox is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and IOS.
Brave
Brave, is another free and open-source web browser. This one was developed by Brendan Eich, 2016. Brendan is the creator of JavaScript and former CEO of Mozilla Corporation.
Brave blocks website trackers, like Firefox, it also blocks advertisements. Because it prevents ads from loading Brave is also fast. Computer World reports that Brave “loads pages twice as fast as Chrome and Firefox” and on a smartphone, it “loads pages up to eight times faster than Chrome (Android) or Safari (iOS).”
As of 2020, Brave has been released for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and IOS. Click here to watch a short video about the Brave browser.
Do you feel conservatives should reject the browsers of the big tech companies? Do you know of other private and secure browsers? Let us know in the comment section below or use the contact page.
June 23, 2022
The Website CancelThisCompany has reported some disturbing information regarding Mozilla Corporation, the owners of Firefox. Click here to read about their ties to big-tech, liberal causes, and their desire to totally remove President Trump from the internet.
