- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
Open-source tests of web browser privacy.
[EDIT] - Check the comments for more information and links 🔽 🔽 🔽
[Edit Edit] - Brave Browser caught adding its own referral codes to some cryptocurrency trading sites - More in the comments 🔽 🔽 🔽
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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?)
Yeah, the tests looked a little suspicious regarding Brave.
According to the founder of the website, Brave’s developers have implemented changes specifically targetting issues on this site, and thats why they’re rated so highly. I believe if you look back to older releases of the test, you’ll see Brave not doing nearly as well.
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.
Stop promoting brave, it’s a scam
and has an a-hole ceo. It uses chromium so double spyware and dependencies
Then share your sources here as well. I am not here to promote anything and personally i’m using LibreWolf right now. 💁♂️
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Is that all?
You need more?!
This was garbage every time it was posted before, and it’s still garbage.
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You’re welcome 🤗
I don’t understand the ones where a browser doesn’t have the feature so it gets a green dash versus a green check. I’d assume not having a feature should just be considered failing. What’s the distinction?
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.
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 switched to it a couple weeks ago from FF/arc. No issues so far, and I’m pretty happy.
I assume Sync doesn’t work for history and bookmarks if its not using the FF servers.
Yes it does both of those things, Librewolf is just Firefox pre-configured for privacy. You could use Librewolf or you could configure firefox yourself to be equally private, Librewolf is just taking advantage of the features built into FIrefox but left optional for users.
Do you know of any guides to configure Firefox to be as private as LibreWolf?
This website has a really extensive writeup on Firefox privacy and security hardening that I learned a couple of tricks from.
Besides that, you can search the Mozilla support forums as there are tons of threads there with questions and answers about Firefox privacy and security.
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
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.
if it’s made for power users why is it proprietary software? Vivaldi is yet another chromium browser with a fancy skin.
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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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LibreWolf should be on the list.
Did you look at the list? It’s there.
No, and no other forks of Firefox should be either. Why don’t you guys get that you can do the same stuff with Firefox as all these different forks do, and still get same day updates and security patches?
