The three most data-hungry mobile browsers: one even collects your personal chats

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[fatTribble]

Pretty interesting. I already use Ecosia for search. I’ll have to check out their browser.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Brave & safari are what I use for mobile browsing. Glad to see Brave on the bottom half of that list. Safari - not too bad considering much of that collection is aimed at device function/services used.

I was curious how they define “device or other IDs” - what does this category represent specifically? I did not see it defined in the article or their Google Docs link to the aggregate data used.

 

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Pretty interesting. I already use Ecosia for search. I’ll have to check out their browser.

I use StartPage as a search engine and for web browsers, Brave and Orion. Safari is rarely used. Orion uses the same engine as Safari and Brave is based-off Chrome (I believe recently when Apple permitted it).

StartPage uses Goggle search engine with privacy focused and the other stuff stripped-out (I could be wrong in this, but I recall reading something in this regard).

 

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Brave & safari are what I use for mobile browsing. Glad to see Brave on the bottom half of that list. Safari - not too bad considering much of that collection is aimed at device function/services used.

I was curious how they define “device or other IDs” - what does this category represent specifically? I did not see it defined in the article or their Google Docs link to the aggregate data used.

Probably means if it’s a device and model for the various mobile hardware. Orion for example does not collect telemetry data. Some business base prices based on type of device and location where potential customer is shopping from.

If you have an iPhone and shopping from USA, prices maybe higher for certain items. If one has a Samsung flagship phone it maybe the same situation.

 

[KaliYoni]

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Looks like not much has changed from a similar survey I saw a few years ago. This comparison of six popular browsers was done by a Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) academic:

"We measure the connections to backend servers made
by six browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari,
Brave Browser, Microsoft Edge and Yandex Browser, during
normal web browsing. Our aim is to assess the privacy risks
associated with this back-end data exchange. We find that
the browsers split into three distinct groups from this privacy
perspective. In the first (most private) group lies Brave, in the
second Chrome, Firefox and Safari and in the third (least private)
group lie Edge and Yandex."
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

 

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Looks like not much has changed from a similar survey I saw a few years ago. This comparison of six popular browsers was done by a Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) academic:

"We measure the connections to backend servers made
by six browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari,
Brave Browser, Microsoft Edge and Yandex Browser, during
normal web browsing. Our aim is to assess the privacy risks
associated with this back-end data exchange. We find that
the browsers split into three distinct groups from this privacy
perspective. In the first (most private) group lies Brave, in the
second Chrome, Firefox and Safari and in the third (least private)
group lie Edge and Yandex."
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

Not sure if it’s sad or pathetic that nothing has changed if not gotten worse.