Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser

Rob @CmdrTaco Malda writes "I've been advising Epic Browser, a startup building a privacy-focused, Chrome-based browser that starts where incognito mode ends. Epic employs a host of tactics designed to make what happens inside your browser stay there, to the tune of a thousand blocks in a typical hour of browsing. They also provide a built-in proxy service. If the corporations and governments are going to watch us, there's no reason to make it any easier for them. Epic has Mac and Windows builds for now. Their site goes into far greater detail about how they block tracking methods most browsers don't."

Comments

Re:Chrome?

[Anonymous Coward]

Based off Chromium, not Chrome. The first is open source.

Re:Where does the money come from?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ads and search results never include any personalized results or tracking

So, ads yes, tracking no. Or in other words, what search engine ads were like before Google. Something relevant to exactly what you typed in, nothing more.

Or at least that's the claim.

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

I see nowhere on their site where the source code is available. That's just a scummy move.

Re:Based on Chromium, not Chrome

[FunPika]

Wrong, Firefox is open source. IceWeasel exists to allow the Debian developers to backport security fixes to the stable version in the Debian repositories and avoid Mozilla's trademark restrictions on the use of Firefox's logo and name. All of the code that makes up what Mozilla officially considers Firefox is freely licensed.