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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Which browsers are best for privacy? (privacytests.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ekZepp to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are the three Chrome derivatives missing features Chrome has? Is it a porting issue or are they just that far behind on pulling in upstream changes?

[–] Asudox 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They use Chromium, not Chrome. Chrome is Google's proprietary version, while Chromium is the open source version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Still pretty proprietary in my books