Browser privacy rankings

[Electric Cupcake]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study-ranks-edges-default-privacy-settings-the-lowest-of-all-major-browsers/

Edge and Chrome are worst, no surprise. Brave is best.

Firefox has flaws, but they're easily plugged. Disabling push notifications and websocket connections and html5 autoplay and WebRTC

Friendly reminder that "Incognito Mode" is a placebo at best.

[Omega]

Various organisations rank browsers differently when talking about privacy and security. The German BSI which is the Federal Office for Information Security ranked Firefox as the most secure browser. Although I do have to mention that they only tested Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Edge.

The Brave browser might be really good, but the company behind it is crap. They have done shady crap in the past such as collecting crypto for creators and websites which never signed up to their program. And replacing ads on the web with their own is just an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing to do, earning money on the work of other creators and forcing these creators to sign up to your little crypto crap if want to to earn anything from people visiting their site though Brave. If Brave ever becomes a major player this system allows them to gain a monopoly on web ads, block the ads from the competition and replace them with you own..

Incognite mode will nuke everything it downloaded such as cookies and temp files after the session is closed. It is a very useful tool when combined with other tricks such as compartmentalization. On it's own it's mostly useless for privacy, if you login to websites it's useless also. If you were to use Incognito mode in combination with compartmentalization it's a very usefull tool to prevent finger printing and cookies from tracking your over the web.


Friendly reminder that if you run a non-free operating system and/or a ton of non-free software on a free operating system don't bother looking for a false sence of privacy, you have no privacy anyway.

[Electric Cupcake]

As for cookies, blocking 3rd party cookies by default is a must, and setting up Cookie Autodelete to delete all non-whitelisted cookies right after they're set or when the session is closed is pretty useful.

[Thunder Lips]

still refuse to run google chrome here it is akin to asking google devs to record every key stroke and any 3rd party that wants to pay google

[Omega]

frink님이 먼저 게시:

still refuse to run google chrome here it is akin to asking google devs to record every key stroke and any 3rd party that wants to pay google

Google is a marketing company, of course they want to know everything about you to maximize profit through targeted advertising.

And Steam Client = Chromium = Chrome. Let's hope Valve wiped all Google spyware from the Steam Client.

Valve is still running Google Analytics on their store front, so you might want to block that through DNS.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Chromium is not Chrome.
Chromium is just what Chrome is based off of. So to suggest Chrome is what Steam uses for a Web browser is completely false.

[Omega]

Bad 💀 Motha님이 먼저 게시:

Chromium is not Chrome.
Chromium is just what Chrome is based off of. So to suggest Chrome is what Steam uses for a Web browser is completely false.

Only difference between Chromium and Chrome is that it uses a different browser engine and some other proprietary components are not supplied with the source code.

As far as I am aware Google does not supply binary builds for Chromium, therefor any binary you download was build by someone else and how it's configured will depend on the person or organisation who build it.

[Thunder Lips]

Omega님이 먼저 게시:

frink님이 먼저 게시:

still refuse to run google chrome here it is akin to asking google devs to record every key stroke and any 3rd party that wants to pay google

Google is a marketing company, of course they want to know everything about you to maximize profit through targeted advertising.

And Steam Client = Chromium = Chrome. Let's hope Valve wiped all Google spyware from the Steam Client.

Valve is still running Google Analytics on their store front, so you might want to block that through DNS.

You realise you got half a brain, using it can be dangerous.

[Omega]

frink님이 먼저 게시:

Omega님이 먼저 게시:

Google is a marketing company, of course they want to know everything about you to maximize profit through targeted advertising.

And Steam Client = Chromium = Chrome. Let's hope Valve wiped all Google spyware from the Steam Client.

Valve is still running Google Analytics on their store front, so you might want to block that through DNS.

You realise you got half a brain, using it can be dangerous.

If you know something I don't then say it and prove me wrong instead of throwing useless insults at me.

I know I am right, and I am 99% sure you are one of these clueless "tech enthusiasts" who think they understand everything while in reality they barely scratch the tip of the iceberg.

Learn how your machine works.