16 pieces · Browser Extensions, Privacy Tools, and Open Web Resources
Auto Browse does not run on your machine. Here's the actual data path, what gets retained, where the confirmation gate stops, and the same-origin weakness researchers found in agentic browsers.
By Sofia Reinholt · 6 min · 8 August 2026
Mullvad has a near-mythic reputation in privacy circles. We separate the verified facts — audits, the 2023 police raid, account-free signup — from the parts the hype gets wrong.
By Sofia Reinholt · 9 min · 10 June 2026
A technical, honest look at browser fingerprinting — the signals that go into a fingerprint, passive vs active techniques, which browsers and extensions actually resist it, and what the realistic limits of protection are.
By Sofia Reinholt · 8 min · 19 May 2026
A practical look at third party cookies phase out — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and privacy-conscious users.
By Sofia Reinholt · 7 min · 1 April 2026
A practical look at browser history privacy guide — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and privacy-conscious users.
By Sofia Reinholt · 6 min · 21 January 2026
A practical look at metadata stripping privacy — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and privacy-conscious users.
By Sofia Reinholt · 6 min · 5 November 2025
A practical look at webrtc ip leak protection — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and privacy-conscious users.
By Sofia Reinholt · 6 min · 20 August 2025
A practical look at canvas fingerprinting protection — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and privacy-conscious users.
By Sofia Reinholt · 6 min · 4 June 2025
A practical look at email tracking pixels protection — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and privacy-conscious users.
By Sofia Reinholt · 6 min · 19 March 2025
A practical look at cookie consent managers privacy — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and privacy-conscious users.
By Sofia Reinholt · 6 min · 8 January 2025
A practical look at ad blockers how they work — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and privacy-conscious users.
By Sofia Reinholt · 6 min · 23 October 2024
A practical look at dns over https browser setup — what it does, how it works, and where the real-world tradeoffs live for developers and privacy-conscious users.
By Sofia Reinholt · 6 min · 7 August 2024
Browser VPN extensions and full VPN clients sound interchangeable but they protect very different things. Here's where each one helps, where each one fails, and how to choose.
By Sofia Reinholt · 6 min · 22 May 2024
FLoC was Google's first proposed replacement for third-party cookie tracking — group users into behavioral cohorts instead of tracking them individually. Here's why browser vendors and regulators rejected it.
By Sofia Reinholt · 8 min · 21 September 2021
Chrome 80 quietly changed how cookies behave by default, and it broke embedded logins, payment flows, and SSO widgets across the web. Here's what SameSite=Lax actually changed and why.
By Sofia Reinholt · 8 min · 17 March 2020
Do Not Track promised users a one-click way to opt out of tracking. A decade later browser vendors are dropping the setting entirely. Here's why it failed and what's replacing it.
By Sofia Reinholt · 9 min · 12 March 2019