During the last year, the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) managed a total of 97,348 incidents related to web safetywhich has been 16.6% with respect to 2023. Of all of them, more than two thirds (65,808 cases) affected citizens and the rest to companies, according to the institution dependent on the Ministry for digital transformation and public function.
Many of the incidents They aimed to exposure or theft of personal dataand in this aspect they can be affected from the most common citizens to the personnel of the State Security Forces and Bodies: in the case of the latter, up to 160,000 data were found that could belong to members of the Civil Guard, Armed Forces and members of the Ministry of Defense on the Dark Website (Dark Web), being able to be this filtration associated with an attack of ransomware to the subcontracted company Media external prevention Sur SL in March 2024.
Therefore, and taking into account digital evolution, Every detail counts to protect your data on the Internetfrom not giving certain information on a website or using certain browsers that block trackers of other websites and allow you to customize their safety options.
In this case, one of the people who emphasizes the most in the aspect of privacy on the Internet is the expert Rave Privacyhead of the total company Privacy Group, who also has a YouTube channel with more than 40,000 subscribers.
In this, it usually raises content of different interventions, in which it provides knowledge about How personal data traffic works on the Internet Or what are the best alternative messaging applications to WhatsApp, Platforms for emails or safer browsers to protect our personal information and tracker search patterns.
The safer browsers
Specifically, the expert gave up to three browsers who enhance security while we sail on the web: Brave, Librewolf and Mullvad Browserall three based on other existing browsers. On the best known alternative to the Google search engine, Duckckgo, Rave comments that “they were caught that installed trackers for Microsoft”, so that would rule out to become the main browser for those users who prioritize security while sailing.
Brave
About Brave, Rave indicates that “it is like having Google Chrome, only that private”, recommending it above all for the “work environment.” This was launched in 2016 and developed by Brendan Eich, the same creator of JavaScript programming language and co -founder of the Mozilla Project.
This browser Give the user the possibility to block all the ads and trackers of the websitesas well as the third -party cookies and fingerprint by default when you start using Brave. In this way, then it allows to increase privacy options through the use of Chroniumits open source base, such as synchronization with customer encryption, amps elimination or limitation of calls to network servers.
Likewise, and by company policy, Brave does not collect any user data and according to these, the “commitment to comply (and go beyond) the regulatory protections of the data, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)”.
Librewolf
Librewolfwhere appropriate, is based on Mozilla Firefox as a base, also with an open source and launched in 2020 for Linux initially. This also aims to “priority” privacy, safety and user freedom. Also, and according to the words of developers, Librewolf “is Designed to improve the protection against trackers and the digital footprint collection techniques. “
Therefore, among its benefits, Freewolf It does not have activated telemetrygives wide options to choose a search engine, such as Searx or QWant, and includes the extension of Ublock Origin by default.
Mullvad Browser
Also developed based on FirefoxRave comments that so much FreeWolf as Mullvad Browser They are “very prepared for privacy”, especially the latter, to which he catalogs as a “very interesting” browser. This comes under the arm of the VPN Mullvad company and the Tor Project, whose main objective is to develop a communications network based on anonymity, since it does not reveal the IP address of the Internet user; and in the secret of the information that travels through this network.
Mullvat Browseron the other hand, it restricts the use of certain APIs that can be used for the Information extractionas well as establishing a private navigation by decree through the use of insolation technology that prevents the accumulation of cookies, among other specifications, such as the default installation of the Ublock Origin extension, it does not have the telemetry and the implementation of default configurations that make them make me make them make them make them make All browser users have the same fingerprint.