• Microsoft Edge the worse private browser

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    Study finds Brave to be the most private browser

    … Brave “is by far the most private of the browsers studied” followed by Chrome, Firefox and Safari. ..
    From a privacy perspective Microsoft Edge and Yandex are qualitatively different from the other browsers studied. Both send persistent identifiers than can be used to link requests (and associated IP address/location) to back end servers. Edge also sends the hardware UUID of the device to Microsoft and Yandex similarly transmits a hashed hardware identifier to back end servers. As far as we can tell this behaviour cannot be disabled by users. In addition to the search autocomplete functionality that shares details of web pages visited, both transmit web page information to servers that appear unrelated to search autocomplete.

    https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/25/study-finds-brave-to-be-the-most-private-browser/

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      Chrome ahead of Firefox?

      That’s… interesting.

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        If you don’t mind Google monitoring everything you do, then I suppose you could say that Chrome is private.

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