Great work, but it’s a test with default settings, helpful for people who don’t touch the configuration at all. If you’re able to tweak more or less the config and add some useful addons, the difference between Brave and Librewolf Vs others may not be that big.
I don’t know how Brave is reliable, remember the affiliate links and Librewolf is a well configured Firefox+uBlock Origin+Duckduckgo & Searx as default search engine.
The Normandy and telemetry components are removed during the compilation when in Firefox, you have to switch the settings to “false”, Librewolf is safer, because you never know what Firefox will do with the settings.
It has been mentioned in this thread, you can find some “ready to use” configurations for Firefox such as arkenfox or Betterfox.
This is my conclusion as well. Especially if you consider the timeliness of patches.
All the test sites out there are testing out of the box settings. Certainly, there is an audience this makes sense for. However, for me, it is more about how private can I get it for my needs.
One thing that chart shows that I agree with is that Ungoogled-chromium is not really a privacy browser.
It removes the sending of data back to google but doesn’t otherwise provide any privacy protections. Further, since the chrome web store integration is blocked, it makes installing and updating extensions cumbersome.
A little surprised how Vivaldi does on tracker blocking, particularly as it advertises itself as blocking trackers by default. Just goes to show that you can claim whatever you want.
I don’t understand this? Is this only on Chrome? On chromium i just go to the web store and install ublock origin. It’s no more difficult than installing it on Firefox.
This website and the browser privacy tests are an independent project by me, Arthur Edelstein. I have developed this project on my own time and on my own initiative. Several months after first publishing the website, I became an employee of Brave, where I contribute to Brave’s browser privacy engineering efforts.
No wonder the Brave browser gets such a good ranking in every test.
I hate to say so, but this just comes across as more shady business from Brave.
Well that’s a shame - Brave has replaced Vivaldi as my secondary browser (after LibreWolf). I like having a non-Chrome Chromium-based browser with decent privacy defaults when I encounter a website that either loads too slowly or breaks on LibreWolf.
Mostly these issues arise due to websites being configured for Chromium. Librewolf is basically just hardened Firefox so I’m looking for a Chromium-based alternative with decent privacy defaults.
I didn’t say it was either. You’d have to make some tweaks on your own. It’s just that a chromium based browser with privacy defaults isn’t exactly common outside of your big ones like Brave.
