I installed brave to test it out and it blocked ads which was cool. But then it has Tor browser and duck duck go search. I’m confused as to what these all do and how to use them.
Edit : thank you all for your explanations !!
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Duck duck go is a search engine that recently started its own browser. It began as a privacy minded search engine to oppose Google. Firefox is an open source browser by Mozilla. Open source means that the way it’s program works is viewable by the public and one can verify that data harvesting isn’t happening or at least when it’s happening. That comes with lots of privacy compared to Chrome or Explorer.
Other browsers (Brave, Tor) are modified versions of Firefox. Since Firefox is open source, it can be changed and used in other browsers. Duck duck go’s browser is probably from Firefox also. Tor uses onion routing which basically means it shields much more information from the sites you visit than most any other browser and is the only browser that can access the dark web.
Brave is supposedly a good browser, but most privacy experts would recommend using a ‘hardened’ version of Firefox. You can look up how to set up Firefox this way on Youtube.
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