Open-source tests of web browser privacy.
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Looking into privacytests.org, the main developer behind it is someone who contributes to Brave source code. He may not be officially affiliated with the company, but it would be hard to ignore any sort of bias towards Brave.
(how do you tag someone here?)
I don’t think that that counts for much - I imagine someone that runs a website that provides privacy tests for other people, likes privacy. If you come across an option that seems very privacy friendly, and you had the expertise to contribute to it’s development, wouldn’t you?
Nevertheless; fuck brave.
This was garbage every time it was posted before, and it’s still garbage.
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So at a quick glance Librewolf is the best choice for desktop? Does it allow addons or block ads natively?
It comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, so there’s that. Otherwise, it’s just a hardened Firefox fork, and as such has the same catalogue of addons
Awesome. Makes me wonder if there’s still a reason to use Firefox over Librewolf.
I switched to it a couple weeks ago from FF/arc. No issues so far, and I’m pretty happy.
Absolutely. I would never recommend any of these offshoots over stock. You can literally set it up the same exact way if you want, but still get same day security patches and updates.
Fair enough!
I assume Sync doesn’t work for history and bookmarks if its not using the FF servers.
Librewolf is a custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy
tor, mullvad, or librewolf i would say
Wish DuckDuckGo was on the list
Who watches the watchers.
Either the watchers watch eachother, or the great kraken watches us all
Why are the three Chrome derivatives missing features Chrome has? Is it a porting issue or are they just that far behind on pulling in upstream changes?
They use Chromium, not Chrome. Chrome is Google’s proprietary version, while Chromium is the open source version.
Vivaldi on why this test is misleading https://vivaldi.com/security/common-questions/#privacytests
Also this doesn’t account for the test choosing bad defaults. Defaults aren’t as important in vivaldi, as it’s made for power users.
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This is a very ignorant response. Do you really think it’s that hard to include some heuristics? This was a very deliberate decision by the team
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if it’s made for power users why is it proprietary software? Vivaldi is yet another chromium browser with a fancy skin.
