A privacy expert who compared some of the most popular browsers on the marketplace reached an unambiguous conclusion: Brave trumps competition. Trinity Higher Dublin'south chair of computer systems, Dr. Douglas Leigth, authored a written report comparing Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge and Yandex in terms of how much personal data they share with backend servers. Dauntless's default configuration was by far the best of the agglomeration.

The report reads:

"Used 'out of the box' with its default settings Dauntless is by far the almost private of the browsers studied. We did not find any use of identifiers allowing tracking of IP address over time, and no sharing of the details of web pages visited with backend servers."

From best to worst

Furthermore, the study places the six browsers into three distinct groups ‒ from nearly private to the to the lowest degree. Brave is the only 1 in the starting time group — browsers that don't share personally identifiable data.

Dauntless was followed past runners-upward Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, which all have "identifiers linked to the browser case." These types of identifiers, the study states, persist across browser restarts. Crucially, however, those identifiers are removed later a fresh browser install.

Border and Yandex came in dead last, as both browsers have persistent hardware identifiers that cannot be revoked, fifty-fifty by reinstalling the browser. The verdict for this third group is even more worrisome:

"Both ship identifiers that are linked to the device hardware and so persist across fresh browser installs <>. Edge sends the hardware UUID of the device to Microsoft <>. Similarly, Yandex transmits a hash of the hardware series number and MAC address to back cease servers. Every bit far as we can tell this behaviour cannot be disabled by users."

Brave is a assuming privacy defender

As Cointelegraph reported previously, Brave is putting force per unit area on the U.K. authorities to finally crevice down on tech giants such as Google for egregiously violating the European Marriage'due south Full general Information Protection Regulation. Privacy advocates will be happy to know that Brave puts its money where its rima oris is.