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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 27 2020, @02:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the Missed-All-Other-Browsers dept.

Ghacks reports:

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @01:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @01:05PM (#963451)

    From the study:

    "Chrome, Firefox and Safari all tag data with identifiers thatare linked to the browser instance"

    I remember when I first noticed this change. Netscape 1.0 did not install with a uniquely identifyable user profile. This happened somewhere between 4.0 and 11.0 if I remember correctly. This is the code base that eventually became Firefox. Didn't do it then, but does it now. And Firefox cares about user privacy? They haven't even removed the crap they added to take user privacy away.

    Call it what you will.