Practical privacy guides: stop browser tracking, remove your data from brokers, harden your devices and browse with less exposure.
The privacy section collects our practical guides to keeping your browsing to yourself. Most of them deal with the small leaks that give you away without you noticing: the referrer your browser sends with every click, WebRTC and DNS requests that slip past a VPN, tracking cookies, and the fingerprint your browser settings create.
Each guide explains the problem in plain terms, shows how to test whether it affects you, and walks through the fixes for the main browsers. Good places to start:
Most guides point to a free tool you can use straight away, such as the WebRTC leak test or the browser fingerprint check.
A full walkthrough of the Fake Name & Identity Generator — country-specific data, test payment cards, bulk export, and reproducible seeds — for anyone testing software with realistic, private, entirely fictional data.
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Good test data should be realistic, exportable in the format you actually need, and reproducible across test runs. Here's how to generate bulk test data the right way.
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Testing a signup flow or a KYC check with a real coworker's details is a habit worth breaking. Here's how to test identity verification systems properly with generated fake identities instead.
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Using a real address in a test environment is a bad habit that causes real support tickets and real privacy risk. Here's how to generate realistic, correctly-formatted fake addresses instead.
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Every request your browser makes to a website includes a user agent string — a line of text that identifies your browser, version, operating system and…
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Brave can leak your real IP through WebRTC even with a VPN on. Here is what the WebRTC IP Handling Policy setting does, which of the four modes to choose, and how to verify the leak is closed.
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Ran the Anonymiz fingerprint test and got a high uniqueness score? Here is what the result means and what actually lowers it.
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Most VPN+qBittorrent guides miss the critical interface binding setting. Without it, qBittorrent falls back to your real IP if the VPN drops — we saw this in 23% of session interruptions. Full setup guide with SOCKS5 proxy comparison.
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Average browser scores 62/100 on privacy. 68% fail WebRTC, 71% are fingerprinted. All 8 checks explained with exact fixes that add 33 points to your score.
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