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."

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I am Epic Founder -- fingerprinting

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Epic blocks loads of fingerprinting scripts which is quite effective in terms of general surveillance that goes on. To otherwise make your browser is un-fingerprintable is very hard to solve unless you block Flash which effectively "breaks the internet". It's no more/less fingeprint-able by the way than any other browser -- and in general you're much safer since we block the known companies that do use fingerprinting. If you're Edward Snowden and you're being targeted, well that's a different story!