Epic Privacy Browser

Free FROM Hidden Reflex, epicbrowser.com

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Epic offers ‘extreme privacy’ as its default. That means no third-party cookies, no password saving, no DNS pre-fetching or caching, no trackers or URL tracking, no WebRTC IP address leaking, no referral header data… You can configure it to use secure DNS servers and set per-site permissions for hardware/system features.

The browser is based on Chromium and adds a built-in encrypted proxy server that effectively acts as a VPN. It doesn’t collect browsing data and it’s always in private browsing mode. The default search provider

is Yahoo but Epic’s own search engine costs $2.50 (about £1.80) per month.

The browser runs incredibly quickly: the M1-optimised version in particular is screamingly fast on even the most complex pages. The downside is that you don’t get the same massive extension library as you do with Chrome; at the time of writing there are just 10 to choose from.

> VERDICT

Very, very fast Built-in proxy server Small extension library Search engine isn’t free