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New Study Finds Most Private Browser

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday February 28 2020, @12:42AM (1 child)

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Friday February 28 2020, @12:42AM (#963881) Journal

    So that is how they do it, to make the autocomplete feature work, the most unnecessary, mindf*fck feature, then they get to see everything you type as you type it.

    I expect this shit from google, but at firefox, how do they sleep at night?

    You have only one job, why can't you do it?

    A private browser is not rocket science, but getting a billionaire to give you money without getting data from people-who-think-they-have-privacy-but-do-not, might be.

    thesesystemsarefailing.net by which I mean non profits that are essentially oligarchic conspiracies against the public

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 29 2020, @07:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 29 2020, @07:55AM (#964547)

    How do they sleep at night?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO0JaecRWy0 [youtube.com]

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