Browser Privacy Settings
Your browser is often the first place tracking happens, through cookies, fingerprinting, and cross-site trackers embedded in nearly every page you visit. The guides below cover reasonable default settings for the browsers most people already use, without asking you to switch to something unfamiliar. Pick the one you use most and go from there.
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- Apple Safari
Reasonable privacy-focused default settings for Apple Safari on macOS and iOS.
- Brave
Reasonable default settings for Brave's own surfaces: Rewards, sponsored content, Leo AI, and telemetry. Shields already handles trackers.
- DuckDuckGo Browser
Reasonable privacy-focused default settings for the DuckDuckGo browser app on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows, an app with unusually little to change out of the box.
- Google Chrome
Reasonable privacy-focused default settings for Google Chrome on desktop and mobile.
- Microsoft Edge
Reasonable privacy-focused default settings for Microsoft Edge on desktop and mobile.
- Mozilla Firefox
Reasonable privacy-focused default settings for Mozilla Firefox on desktop and mobile.