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Discussion on: My Favorite Privacy Tools in 2020: Be Safer on the Internet!

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Glenn Carremans

For browser I would also suggest Brave, it has by default build-in tracking and ad blocking and the engine is build with Rust which is much faster than a javascript based extension.

For web analytics I would add Matomo Analytics, they have a free self hosted option. It has features like IP anonymization , respects Do Not Track, Opt Out function, disable cookies, ...

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Ranieri Althoff

Please reconsider Brave. It is very far from privacy-focused, it does a lot of shady business with your pages such as replacing ads with their own and adding affiliate links without consent.

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Glenn Carremans

They don't replace ads on pages, I have been using Brave for over a year and never seen any ad on a webpage. Brave ads or shown as a browser notification and you can in your settings set how many ads max per hour you would like to see.
If so can you show any proof?

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Ranieri Althoff

That definitely was the plan last year, I don't know where it stands today.