See what FreePolicyTools has published or reviewed most recently, with clear dates and direct links to the underlying research.
Items are ordered by publication or dataset verification date. We do not have a public popularity metric, so this page does not claim that these are the most viewed or most used tools.
Latest research and guides from the FreePolicyTools blog.
Original 480-workflow study across 20 sites and three days, plus 48 California checks: advertising identifier evidence, NetShield, cookie refusal, browser blocking, charts and downloadable data.
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Original tests of 12 online PDF tools: 19 timed file observations, fresh-browser reproductions, colorful tables, charts, WebP evidence and downloadable data.
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Original tests of 15 US reporting services: 120 browser journeys, 34 proxy diagnostics, 13 validation checks, charts, route tables and 195 WebP evidence images.
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Original proxy encryption research: 36 lab trials, six successful paid-proxy HTTPS requests, ten documentation examples, charts and downloadable evidence.
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Original application routing research: 1,080 local trials and 80 public HTTPS checks, with client route tables, charts, WebP illustrations and downloadable evidence.
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Original tests of eight password checkers: 42 completed visits, three exact synthetic-password reconstructions, WebP screenshots, charts and downloadable evidence.
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Six exact-email POSTs across an original ten-route pilot and a validated follow-up. Includes seven fresh-context visits, screenshots, charts, exclusions and downloadable evidence.
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An original 36-visit case study of six VPN website warnings: independently verified Proton exits, four evidence images, charts, exclusions and downloadable data.
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Blog cards use their scheduled publication dates. Provider cards use the verification date in the comparison dataset. These dates describe the source snapshot; they are not promises that a provider's plans or policies have stayed unchanged since then.