A new study Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home?, looked at the six popular desktop web browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Apple Safari, Brave, and Yandex, to uncover what these browsers send back to the mothership.
If you just want the result, the study found that used out of the box, Brave "is by far the most private of the browsers studied" followed by Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Brave is the only web browser that did not use identifiers that allowed tracking of the IP address over time and did not share details of web pages visited to backend servers.
Where is my Moon?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @03:03AM (1 child)
The headline is one of those "things that make you go ... huh?!"
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Mer on Thursday February 27 2020, @06:35AM
Brave is pretty much the last browser I would think of in terms of privacy because of their built in behavior tracking. The only reasons it's doing so well is that the inbuilt adblocker is on by default on a vanilla install. Even keeping this farce of a "study" accessible to muggles, that's pointless information and even harmful since it's shilling brave.
Shut up!, he explained.