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If you're like most people <ref>[[wp:Usage share of web browsers]]</ref>, you're using Google's '''Chrome''' browser. Not the worst choice. But Chrome is a Google proprietary product with no price attached. What that means, is that YOU are the product. By using no-price products/services, there is an inherent business model built-in whereby you are funding some revenue somewhere. Usually that means that your private data is the product which the vendor is monetizing. If you're using Chrome to Facebook, then you really don't care about privacy at all, since Facebook is the world's biggest profiling engine.

Browsers such as Google's '''Chromium''' (the upstream for Chrome) or Mozilla Foundation's '''FireFox''' are open source. They offer much better features, privacy and control compared with the proprietary browsers. Since the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit corporation for the public benefit, FireFox is arguably the best choice for consumers. FireFox offers an extension called '[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam/ Lightbeam]' which will show you how web beacons, cookies and 3rd-party content or sites create the web that you don't see. See the Ted Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers and this demo: {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvqGy9wz_wA|right}}  Still, there are plenty of reasons why these browsers don't go far enough to protect your privacy ''by default''. One open source option which does offer a good degree of privacy out of the box is also the ''oldest'' browser still in use today: the '''[http://lynx.invisible-island.net/ lynx]''' browser is a text-based browser. But, because it's text-based, you probably won't use it unless you're normally in front of a console.