For the 34e times, PrivacyTests proposes to test a dozen or so browsers around their privacy management. There are some good students, but mostly very bad ones…
The results are sometimes edifying.
An independent project
Before analyzing the results of Privacytest, let’s go back to what exactly this project is. Led solo by Arthur Edelstein since October 2021 and regularly updated with the new versions of the browsers tested, it is initially a purely personal project. Already passed by Tor and Firefox, Edelstein has since been recruited by Brave, for whom he works on the issue of privacy.
He promises that his work will remain independent, but it seemed important to specify all of this despite everything. Especially since, as you will see, if we are to believe the results, there are many disparities between browsers.
Brave dominates, the others under Chromium bow
The results concern both the desktop and mobile versions of around ten browsers. The analysis also takes into account private browsing and even beta versions of certain software. Tests are carried out around the tracking of many elements, and, overall, it is a question of seeing what the browsers let leak or not.
On the desktop in classic browsing, the best students are Brave (1.42) and the lesser known Librewolf (105.0), while Firefox (104.0), Safari (16.0) and Tor (11.5) are also doing well. Red card, however, for a large majority of other Chromium-based browsers, such as Chrome (106.0), Edge (106.), Opera (91.0) and even Vivaldi (5.5), which nevertheless prides itself on offering a level of privacy superior to Google’s solution.
The results in private browsing are a little more balanced and some holes are filled, but the distribution remains essentially the same. Brave and Librewolf remain unique in protecting and blocking certain types of data.
Same observation on mobile
On iOS, the different solutions tested offer almost the same level of protection. Only in blocking content tracking do Brave, Duckduckgo (7.70) and Focus (105.0) stand out from the competition.
On Android, on the other hand, once again software based on Chromium (but not only) stand out with many holes in their racket. Besides Brave (1.44), the top performers are Tor (99.0), Bromite (105.0), Focus (105.2), and Mull (105.1).
Source : Privacy test
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- Accessible to inexperienced Internet users and suitable for a more demanding audience
- Impeccable private data security
- Willingness to break free from existing monopolies (Brave Search, Talk, News, Ads)
Brave seriously competes with the greats. The developers focus on features that are more than important with regard to the management of personal data online. From this strategy came an independent search engine, a fair sharing program for advertising revenue that respects privacy, secure communication tools and innovative navigation functions.
Brave seriously competes with the greats. The developers focus on features that are more than important with regard to the management of personal data online. From this strategy came an independent search engine, a fair sharing program for advertising revenue that respects privacy, secure communication tools and innovative navigation functions.
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