Software and services for a safer Internet browsing
The browser
Essential Firefox plugins
- EFF Privacy Badger - see who is seeing you
- Multi account containers for Firefox - finally it’s possible to isolate cookies
- uBlock Origin - more than an adblocker
Search engines
- Qwant and its Lite version - great results and EU located
- DuckDuckToGo - supports searching via POST requests
- Protonmail - opensource, encrypted and Swiss based email provider
VPN
- ProtonVPN - unlimited bandwidth and no logs
DNS
- 1.1.1.1 is privacy first and fast DNS server by CloudFlare and APNIC. Yes, it’s faster than Google public DNS 8.8.8.8.
They say:
We will never log your IP address (the way other companies identify you) […] and we’ve retained KPMG to audit our systems annually to ensure that we’re doing what we say.
Updates
- May 2018 - added 1.1.1.1 DNS