Privacy and anti-fingerprinting
Max Browser
A no-logs Chromium browser for DataBench in Australia. We built its privacy core, its anti-censorship features and its blocking of big-tech tracking and data brokers.
- Chromium
- Privacy
- Anti-censorship
- Tracker blocking
- Client
- DataBench Pty Ltd (Australia)
- Built on
- Chromium
- Status
- Live
- Our part
- We built Max’s privacy core on Chromium: the no-logs design, anti-censorship features and blocking of big-tech tracking and data brokers.
The client and the problem
DataBench, an Australian company, wanted a browser where privacy is the product: no activity logs, and protection from the profiling that big-tech services and data brokers carry out across many sites.
What we built
We built Max’s privacy core on Chromium. We changed what the browser writes to disk and what it sends in telemetry, so the no-logs promise is enforced in code, not by a setting that clears history afterward. We also built its anti-censorship features and the blocking of big-tech monitoring and data brokers.
- A no-logs design, built into what the browser stores and sends
- Anti-censorship features for reaching sites and services that would otherwise be blocked
- Blocking of big-tech monitoring and data brokers
Why it was hard
Chromium records history, diagnostics and crash data by default, and some of it can leave the device. For Max, each of those paths had to be found and changed or removed, because a “no logs” policy means nothing if the browser underneath still collects the data.
Screenshots
Max on Android, with DataBench’s built-in VPN. Image: Google Play listing. 
The Max privacy report. Image: Google Play listing.
Outcome
- Max is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, according to its website.
In the client’s words
“Browser Developers delivered very good work on our Chromium-based browser project. They are experienced, knowledgeable, and helpful in suggesting additional scope to help achieve the required outcomes. I would highly recommend them.”
About the product
The product as its owner describes it. These are the client’s features, not a list of our work; our part is under “What we built”.
Max is a private, Chromium-based browser with a built-in VPN, owned and published by DataBench Pty Ltd in Australia. Its website says it blocks ads, trackers, third-party cookies and fingerprinting, keeps no activity logs and signs users in without passwords.
According to Max’s website, the built-in VPN uses the WireGuard protocol and includes 2GB of free data every month, with paid top-ups or an unlimited plan beyond that.
Product facts from maxpie.io, checked September 2026.
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