In the $100+ billion dollar advertising industry, even a one percent additional yield means an extra billion dollars a year in revenues for advertisers hence the massive incentive to track you and show you more personal and creepy ads (unless you're using Epic). New FCC regulations allow ISPs such as Verizon, Comcast and all others to both save and sell your browsing history. We've found an average of six per website with that number rising to a dozen or more on larger websites. Over 80% of websites use one or more tracking tools. Your ISP can now save and sell your browsing history. Visiting the top 50 websites will install over 3,000 tracking files on your computer. We believe what you browse & search should always be private. On close of Epic, there's no easily accessible record of your browsing history left on your computer. When you're using Epic with our encrypted proxy on, your data is encrypted and hidden from the government, from your ISP, from Google, from your employer, and from hundreds of data collectors. Unfortunately, any browser addon has access to your entire browsing and search history and while many may protect you from some trackers, they often collect and sell your data to others - so browser addons may reduce your privacy and security rather than enhance it.Įpic is a private browser that's fast, simple and actually works. There is no combination of settings changes and browser addons which provides the same level of protection, let alone the ease and speed of use that Epic does. Even if your IP address is hidden, tens of thousands of websites use fingerprinting techniques such as accessing image canvas data to track you.Įpic blocks fingerprinting scripts and functions like image canvas data access to protect you which no browser extension can do. Your browsing history is easily accessible (via your DNS cache) upon incognito window close.īehind a VPN, your real IP address can leak through certain types of WebRTC calls - only Epic blocks them. You're tracked by Google, by your ISP, your government and hundreds of data collectors while in incognito or other private browsing modes. It's no replacement for Firefox or Chromium (yet) but it did just enough to stay on my hard drive and if you want to try it out install it via the PPA.Using Incognito Mode for Privacy? Browser addons? A VPN? I had several crashes and a segmentation fault. The worst thing I can say about it is that it may have occasional stability issues. QupZilla looks good, renders pages well and renders them fast and and has some features that just about manage to leverage a niche for it in a crowded market. It's not highly configurable but you seem to be able to add an infinite number of speedials and a scroll bar will appear as he number grows so navigation is simple. Firefox requires an addon for that but, like Opera, QupZilla has it baked in. Figure 3: Print Preview is clean and configurableįinally, Speed Dial. Other than not opening in full screen (you have to manually resize it) I can't fault it. Handy if you ever need to e-mail a whole page to a website admin to annotate and highlight style and formatting errors.Īll browsers have a print function and Chrome(ium) has an excellent preview facility but they should imitate QupZilla's. Save Page Screen is QupZilla's name for it. The first is the ability to take a screenshot of an entire web page without the need for external tools. QupZilla has two other features that other browsers should emulate. Figure 2: Qupzilla's bookmarks import options QupZilla allows you import Firefox, Chrome and Opera bookmarks as well as importing from an HTML file. That's a definite pass, but a fail in not adding the ability to tag bookmarks for better searching and adding bookmarks as speedials. Figure 1: Qupzilla's tabbed and integrated RSS feeder The first feature that really caught my attention was the way the developers integrated Bookmarks, RSS feeds and History and it doesn't do any harm that it looks good too. Let's concentrate on where QupZilla is different-and possibly better. I won't rehash all the features you'd expect of modern browsers. So, I decided to take a look at the substance behind that quirky name. That's exactly what the developers at QupZilla did. Just how do you establish a niche in the browser market when it is already saturated with so many competitors? Well, you could use Webkit and QT, throw in a few neat features and see where that takes you.
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