Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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Post by resoluti0n » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 11:49 AM UTC

Open-source tests of web browser privacy
privacytests.org

Re: Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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Post by codeptualize » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 12:10 PM UTC

Very interesting! I’m positively surprised by the iOS situation, also good to see Tor perform well. Never tried librewolf but I might give it a go.

I’m curious what it would look like with some extensions installed.

Re: Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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Post by sebow » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 1:37 PM UTC

Surprising to see librewolf there; Last time i tried any firefox forks they were all frankly terrible;My go-to privacy browser for work-related stuff or anything serious is ungoogled chromium for years now, any other chromium-based forks like Brave seem private only as a facade.Vivaldi has the best gesture system of any browser hands-down, but my issue in the past with it was performance(especially HW accell).

Also ff-based forks have the problem of availability of packages & ease of installation.

Re: Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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Post by xolve » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 1:38 PM UTC

Firefox with these settings from Librewolf looks very much equivalent: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/blob/maste...

Re: Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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Post by mbbaig » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

Surprising that Tor differentiates itself a little on iOS. I figured with all of them using the same engine the results would all be the same.

Re: Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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Post by chrischapman » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

This reminds me so much of the ACID tests[1] from the late 90's, early 2000s. I wonder if it will have a similar effect, i.e. to drive people away from Chrome in the same way it eventually drove people away from IE.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid1

Re: Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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Post by NmAmDa » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 2:30 PM UTC

This is under the assumption that each browser is being used with the default settings, firefox can do much better with customizable settings.

Re: Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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Post by kdtop » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 2:37 PM UTC

To me, it seemed that if a browser had passed every test, the user might not be able to use many web sites. Perhaps the current status is a conscious decision by developers to keep users from hating their browser. Security vs usability.

Re: Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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Post by dopa42365 » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 2:58 PM UTC

More useful would be showing what can be enabled (if it's not on by default), how useful it actually is (not every checkmark is created equally heh), and what can be added (especially on the tracking side) by simply installing μblock origin (which everyone would/should do in every browser anyway).

Re: Open-source tests of web browser privacy

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Post by jtbayly » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 4:16 PM UTC

mbbaig wrote: post #5

Surprising that Tor differentiates itself a little on iOS. I figured with all of them using the same engine the results would all be the same.

I don’t see tor on iOS. What am I missing?