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BEST SECURE SAFARI ALTERNATIVES

ON TEST…

> Brave

> Epic Privacy Browser

> Firefox

> Opera

> Tor

> Vivaldi

APPLE’S SAFARI IS a great web browser, and if you’re an iCloud subscriber it’ll become even more so this Fall with iCloud+ and iCloud Private Relay. That routes your traffic through a relay to hide your IP address, your exact geographic location, and your browsing data. It’s not quite a Virtual Private Network (VPN), but it’s pretty close.

That’s great if you’re an iCloud subscriber upgrading to macOS Monterey. But if you aren’t, these browsers all promise to keep you safe, secure, and private when you’re online.

You’ll notice that one browser is conspicuous by its absence: Chrome. That’s because Chrome is at heart, a browser built to connect to Google, and as Mozilla told Forbes magazine: “Chrome is the

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