How Private Is Your Browser?
If you want Privacy, Don’t Use Edge, Opera or Chrome … Use Librewolf, Mullvad, Brave or Tor
We love our browsers, but do they leak sensitive information? Unfortunately, they can be a source of data collection for many companies, and the leakage of information can allow them to target you. A simple tracking cooking install (with you accepting the conditions of the site), can be used to track your activity across different websites. And, those pesky advertisements are typically focused on you, as tracking activities pinpoint the kind of things you like. Well to assess this, PrivacyTests.org [here] has a whole host of tests which assess how good our browsers are with privacy.
Browser market share
Chrome, currently, has by far the largest share of the market (with 63.45%). Its nearest contenders are Safari (20.48%), Edge (4.97%), Firefox (2.97%), and Opera (2.4%). Safari gains its popularity due to the sale of Apple computers — and which also have around 20% of the market share for computer sales. And, so, for Windows-based computers, Chrome has a massive share of the browser market. But, is it made for privacy, or does its popularity leave it open to data harvesting?
