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[Anti-Tracking](#anti-tracking)\n  - [Security Extensions](#security-extensions)\n  - [Wrappers Tools for Web Browsers](#wrapper-tools-for-web-browsers)\n- [Fingerprinting](#fingerprinting)\n  - [Canvas Fingerprinting](#canvas-fingerprinting)\n  - [Counter Fingerprinting](#counter-fingerprinting)\n  - [Other Fingerprinting](#other-fingerprinting)\n  - [Passive Fingerprinting](#passive-fingerprinting)\n  - [TLS Fingerprinting](#tls-fingerprinting)\n- [Surveillance Capitalism](#surveillance-capitalism)\n- [Web Analytics](#web-analytics)\n\n--------\n\n## Browsers\n- [Vivaldi](https://vivaldi.com/blog/privacy/privacy-is-not-dead-you-have-choices-in-browsers-and-search-engines/): \"Privacy is not dead. You have choices in browsers and search engines.\"\n- [The Browser Company](https://thebrowser.company/): building \"A browser equipped for the way we use the internet in 2021.\"\n- [Brave Browser](https://brave.com/features/): \"3x faster than Chrome. Better protection from Google and Big Tech.\"\n- [Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/download/): Firefox-based browser that connects to Tor network.\n- [Apple](https://www.apple.com/safari/docs/Safari_White_Paper_Nov_2019.pdf): Apple's whitepaper on Safari's privacy by design approach.\n- [Google Safe Browsing](https://safebrowsing.google.com/): Safe Browsing gives users the ability to protect themselves from multiple types of unsafe sites and applications.\n- [Chrome Developers](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/design/sandbox.md): Design document on Google Chrome's security sandbox.\n- [Chrome Developers](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/user-agent/): User-Agent reduction in Chrome Privacy Sandbox.\n- [Menlo Remote Browser](https://www.menlosecurity.com/product/remote-browser-isolation/): routes all online activity through a remote cloud-based browser\n- [Viewfinder Remote Browser](https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder): remote isolated web browser that runs in the cloud to protect your device.\n--------\n\n## Browser Extensions\n\n### Anti-Tracking\n- [uBlock Origin](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en): \"wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature.\"\n- [AdBlock Plus](https://adblockplus.org): \"Surf the web with no annoying ads\"\n- [Ghostery](https://www.ghostery.com): \"Browse Fast, Block Ads \u0026 Trackers with Ghostery Privacy Suite\"\n- [Disconnect](https://disconnect.me): \"Protect yourself from malicious internet tracking, ads, web content, and other privacy threats.\"\n\n### Security Extensions\n- [NoScript](https://noscript.net): \"allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice\"\n- [OttoJS](https://www.otto-js.com): \"Runtime Third-Party JavaScript Security.\"\n\n--------\n\n## Wrapper Tools for Web Browsers\n- [SPB (AKA Start Private Browser)](https://github.com/henri/spb): A command line tool which simplifies starting independent web browser instances.\n\n--------\n\n\n\n## Fingerprinting\n\n### Canvas Fingerprinting\n- [Google Research](https://research.google/pubs/pub45581/): Picasso: Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting for Web Clients\n- [@antoinevastel](https://github.com/antoinevastel/picasso-like-canvas-fingerprinting): \"Picasso based canvas fingerprinting\"\n- [FingerprintJS](https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/canvas-fingerprinting/): \"How Does Canvas Fingerprinting Work?\"\n- [AdTechMadness](https://adtechmadness.wordpress.com/2019/03/19/overview-of-googles-picasso/): \"Overview of Google’s Picasso\"\n- [Dali.js](https://github.com/onsitejs/dali.js): Dali.js, Picasso-like device attestation payload\n\n### Counter Fingerprinting\n- [Am I Unique](https://amiunique.org/stats): basic information a user's browser configuration and how trackable it is\n- [EFF CoverYourTracks](https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/kcarter?aat=1): EFF project that allows you to understand how easy it is to identify and track your browser\n- [BrowserLeaks](https://browserleaks.com/canvas): gallery of testing tools that show what browser data can be leaked\n- [DeviceInfo](https://www.deviceinfo.me): web browser security testing, privacy testing, and troubleshooting tool.\n- [Privacy Analyzer](https://privacy.net/analyzer/): tool lists information that any website, advertisement, and widget can collect from your web browser\n- [User-Agent Switcher](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg?hl=en): Spoofs \u0026 Mimics User-Agent strings.\n- [Cookie-Editor](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-editor/hlkenndednhfkekhgcdicdfddnkalmdm?hl=en): extension to quickly create, edit and delete cookies without leaving your tab\n- [HUMAN Security](https://www.humansecurity.com/blog/the-cybercrime-starter-kit-inside-anti-detection-browsers): \"Inside Anti-Detection Browsers and Account Takeovers\"\n\n### Other Fingerprinting\n- [Jesse Li](https://blog.jse.li/posts/chrome-76-incognito-filesystem-timing/): \"Detecting incognito mode in Chrome 76 with a timing attack\"\n- [FingerprintJS](https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/incognito-mode-detection/): \"Incognito Mode Detection: Detecting Visitors Who Browse in Private Mode\"\n\n### Passive Fingerprinting\n- [p0f](https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f3/): Passive fingerprinting of TCP/IP communications.\n- [nmap](https://nmap.org/book/man-os-detection.html): Nmap Reference Guide on OS Detection\n\n### TLS Fingerprinting\n- [ja3](https://github.com/salesforce/ja3): JA3 is a method for creating SSL/TLS client fingerprints for threat intelligence.\n- [Salesforce Blog](https://engineering.salesforce.com/tls-fingerprinting-with-ja3-and-ja3s-247362855967): \"TLS Fingerprinting with JA3 and JA3S\"\n- [jarm](https://github.com/salesforce/jarm): JARM is an active Transport Layer Security (TLS) server fingerprinting tool.\n- [ja3er](https://ja3er.com/): ja3er is a project about collecting and sharing JA3 hashes.\n\n--------\n\n## Surveillance Capitalism\n- [The Age of Surveillance Capitalism on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capitalism): Shoshana Zuboff suggests that Big Tech business models represent a new form of capitalist accumulation, \"surveillance capitalism\".\n- [Vivaldi](https://vivaldi.com/blog/letter-ban-surveillance-based-advertising/): \"Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising\"\n\n--------\n\n## Web Analytics\n- [analytics.usa.gov](https://analytics.usa.gov/data/): Aggregated data of US government website analytics, updated frequently.\n- [Simple Analytics](https://www.simpleanalytics.com/): Pprivacy-first Google Analytics alternative.\n- [Matomo](https://matomo.org/): Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy.\n- [Plausible](https://plausible.io/): Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.\n- [Umami](https://umami.is/): A simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.\n- [Aurora](https://useaurora.app/): 100% Cookie-Free Open Website Analytics. Collect Anonymous Data.\n- [Nullitics](https://nullitics.com/): Zero-effort open-source cheap analytics.\n- [Ackee](https://ackee.electerious.com/): Self-hosted website analytics.\n- [Shynet](https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet): Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.\n- [Pirsch](https://pirsch.io/): Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source alternative to Google Analytics.\n- [Countly](https://count.ly/): Product analytics with data ownership controls.\n- [OnSiteJS](https://onsitejs.org): Privacy-conscious web analytics.\n- [OffSiteJS](https://offsitejs.org): Decentralized, private-by-design web analytics\n","projects_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/lists/onsitejs%2Fawesome-private-browsing/projects"}