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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: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 27 2020, @05:12PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 27 2020, @05:12PM (#963612) Journal

    But I don't really care all that much.

    [ . . . . ]

    Or am I missing something?

    Only your privates privacy.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @06:08PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @06:08PM (#963630)

    The snark is strong with this one.

    How would you suggest I get my privacy back, friend?

    Or are you just playing this for laughs?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @05:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @05:20PM (#964186)

      Careful. That snark really is a Boojum, you see.