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Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-know-what-you-googled-last-summer dept.

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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  1. Re:Chrome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  2. Based on Chromium, not Chrome by spivster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The summary is incorrect. This browser is based on the open source Chromium, not Chrome, a subtle but important difference since Chrome has Google's extra tracking goodness. However, I have to wonder why they didn't start with Firefox, which is truly open source and not connected at all with Google, which has pretty much become the poster child of privacy invasion these days.

  3. Re: Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wouldn't using some special snowflake browser like this make you especially vulnerable to fingerprinting?

  4. Why another? by mwissel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sounds a lot like SRWare Iron* to me - that's a long existing Chromium-based fork altered for enhanced privacy.

    At a first glance, I cannot make out any advantages of Epic over Iron. Aside from the removal of all user tracking which Chrome brings, they only provide a 1-click-proxy functionality. Which, if I used it, would leave me and my privacy at the mercy of an India based startup. Instead, I'd also rather suggest JAP** which is also long and well established.

    So what am I missing that makes Epic Browser worth a Slashdot post?

    [1] https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
    [2] http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/

  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  7. Re:What about on the "Web" itself... by hairyfeet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Uhhhh...its already been reported that NSA is running several Tor exit nodes to collect the data, you DO know this, right? There has also been people who had their doors kicked down and all their computers hauled off because they ran a Tor exit node and somebody supposedly used it to look at child porn so even running your own exit node carries significant risks.

    I think everybody is just gonna have to accept the party is over and has been for awhile, and that any and every thing you do on the net needs to be treated like you were standing on a street corner holding up a sign as THAT is how little privacy you have now. And if the report is true that the NSA has the keys to HTTPS then running a proxy really isn't gonna do shit, they can set there with taps on the backbone and read it all in near real time and if they are doing a MITM on the backbone then that proxy isn't gonna do shit as those packets still have to get to your PC and they can just follow it back to the source.

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