On Monday, the Tor Venture and Mullvad VPN, two organizations centered on person privateness, launched a brand new privacy-focused net browser referred to as Mullvad Browser. The browser is free to obtain and works on Home windows, MacOS and Linux. There’s additionally a Firefox extension in beta you possibly can obtain.
“The mass surveillance of right now is absurd,” Jan Jonsson, Mullvad VPN’s CEO, stated in a information launch. “The Mullvad Browser is all about offering extra privateness alternate options to succeed in as many individuals as doable and make life more durable for many who gather knowledge from you.”
The Mullvad Browser was developed by the Tor Venture’s engineers, and it minimizes knowledge monitoring. It does that by making all customers seem as one, much like how the Tor Browser works. Which means the extra individuals who use the browser, the extra safety customers have.
“Creating this browser with Mullvad is about offering individuals with extra privateness choices for on a regular basis shopping and to problem the present enterprise mannequin of exploiting individuals’s behavioral knowledge,” stated Isabela Fernandes, the Tor Venture’s government director.
The Mullvad browser is the most recent browser that’s centered on person privateness. Different privacy-focused browsers embrace DuckDuckGo and Courageous. DuckDuckGo additionally presents customers an electronic mail safety beta service that strips trackers from emails, and different privateness providers.
For extra on privateness, take a look at CNET’s checklist of finest VPNs, what to know concerning the DuckDuckGo browser and what you must find out about knowledge brokers.