A privacy expert who compared the popular browsers came to the conclusion that
Brave Browser is by far the most private browsers of all.
Trinity College Dublin’s chair of computer systems, Dr. Douglas Leigth, authored a study comparing Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge and Yandex in terms of how much personal data they share with backend servers. Brave’s default configuration was by far the best of the bunch.
“Used ‘out of the box’ with its default settings Brave is by far the most private of the browsers studied. We did not find any use of identifiers allowing tracking of IP address over time, and no sharing of the details of web pages visited with backend servers.”
Out of 6 browsers that were placed under the study, Brave is the only browser that doesn’t share personally identifiable information. Brave was followed by runners-up Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, which all have “
identifiers linked to the browser instance.” These types of identifiers, the study states, persist across browser restarts. Crucially, however, those identifiers are removed after a fresh browser installs.
Edge and Yandex came in dead last, as both browsers have persistent hardware identifiers that cannot be revoked, even by reinstalling the browser.
“Both send identifiers that are linked to the device hardware and so persist across fresh browser installs <>. Edge sends the hardware UUID of the device to Microsoft <>. Similarly, Yandex transmits a hash of the hardware serial number and MAC address to back end servers. As far as we can tell this behavior cannot be disabled by users.”
Read the detailed Study by Dr. Douglas Leigth here -
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdfConclusion: Brave Browser is the best browser out of all the browsers in terms of protecting personal information.
[Disclaimer]: I am not related to Brave Browser.
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Privacy Study: Brave Browser Smacks Down Chrome, Firefox & Safari