Based on https://privacytests.org
Desktop browsers in their current stable versions, sorted from better (left) to worse (right). These are:
Librewolf, Mullvad, Brave, Tor, Safari, Chromium/Ungoogled, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Chrome.
Note: Each test is counted with a value of one in this chart, however each test may not have an equal importance in regard to privacy. It still gives an image of which browsers value privacy and which do not.
The maximum (worst possible) score is 143.
Edit: Also FUCK BRAVE. But for other reasons than these points. Read the description before you vote or comment ffs…
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How on earth do you have to measure for Brave to be more private than Tor?
Just read the information and you will understand. See my other comments.
Several months after first publishing the website, I became an employee of Brave, where I contribute to Brave’s browser privacy engineering efforts. I continue to run this website independently of my employer, however. There is no connection with Brave marketing efforts whatsoever.
Also sure, Brave blocking trackers is +13 points, and Tor not leaking your IP adress is +1… Same level of privacy.
But as it clearly says in my description, one test point is not equal to all other points (there is no way to rank, some are obviously more important than others). I just don’t know how to weigh them between each other.
The tests are legit regardless of where the person works, don’t you think so? Or do you think the tests are faked?
If anyone knowledgable in privacy still chooses to use Brave, it’s their problem. Despite Brave ranking with relatively few points here in total, it is not a browser to trust because of their track record.
Why does this site smell of marketing by brave listing all the things it can do but ignoring alternative privacy features?
Do keep in mind brave installs VPNs without your consent, solicits donation on behalf of creators and won’t refund collected money, and diverts ad revenue from legitimate sites to themselves.
Have you read the about page on privacytests.org? How is it a Brave ad (and not a Mullvad or Librewolf ad) when it is not even the best ranked?
Let me cite what I wrote above once again, please read it: “Note: Each test is counted with a value of one in this chart, however each test may not have an equal importance in regard to privacy. It still gives an image of which browsers value privacy and which do not.”
I am the OP of this and I do not use Brave and would never touch it because of the scummy crap they have done. But this is NOT what this graph is showing. The website linked is certainly legit.
How is Firefox that high?
The tables in the source shows why.
There are many things measured in those tables around preventing URL tracking, cookies, and storing data in session storage etc which none of the mainstream browsers are doing, including Firefox.
Some of them are decisions made for good reason, because although preventing them would improve privacy it would also massively impact usability, and so only the most all-in privacy-focused browsers are doing that.
OP themselves notes that they have weighted each ‘check’ as a 1 and each ‘cross’ as a 0 in calculating the size of the bars in the chart, without consideration of how relatively important or not those features are against other.
Personally I believe the approach to generating the chart is flawed and does not give a fair measure of browser privacy.
People seem to really misunderstand this post. ONE TEST (POINT) IS NOT EQUAL IN IMPORTANCE TO ALL OTHER TESTS. I ask you to read the description and the information on privacytests.org before you vote or comment. If my description is not clear enough, please let me know how I can improve it to make it understandable (I am not a native English speaker).
It’s not a “Brave ad”, geez… I am a strong proponent of Firefox.
If anyone have any sources on the website being a bad source, please send me those. The tests are very reliable, you just need to understand the data points.
