Which browsers are best for privacy?
privacytests.org
An open-source privacy audit of popular web browsers.
  • Ilandar
    992·
    1 year ago

    That website is run by an employee of Brave, who rates the privacy of browsers based on their default settings (which Brave tends to perform best in). If browsers prompt the user to select their privacy settings on a first run, he scores them based as if the user had selected the worst privacy options.

    If he actually spent a few minutes setting up each browser, as is always recommended within the privacy community, that table will look a lot different. But then Brave wouldn’t stand out as much…

    • hruzgar@feddit.de
      124·
      1 year ago

      almost nobody does that though. And after a certain amount of time even power users are like “yeah. f* it”. So default settings ARE important imo

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        They are, but when you explicitly have to go through the options you probably won’t select the weaker ones.

    • Platform27@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      He’s launching a self-test tool, for anyone to use. It’s still unfinished (last time I checked), but tweaking some values doesn’t make a huge amount of difference. Where it does, he included a Browsers similar to those settings, pre applied (eg: Librewolf, Mullvad Browser). Plus by that logic you should also test Brave on Aggressive mode, which by default, is set to Standard.

    • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
      21·
      1 year ago

      That website is run by an employee of Brave

      Like, for real? That’s kinda funny.