Shots fired π₯
those tables usually are wrong or misleading, i don't like them.
Edge for example has the 3rd party cookie blocking and it works ok, so why it's "no" and not "somewhat" or similar?
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I dont see the line "3rd party cookie blocking"
should be "prevent sites from tracking". Or they carefully chose that sentence in order to give a "no" to edge and "somewhat" to chrome and opera
Firefox uses a built-in domain blocklist for tracking protection, in addition to blocking third party cookies
Although that would not explain why Chrome and Opera pass that at all to begin with IMO. Maybe these browsers enforce their own additional data silos or other deviations from specs when in Private Browsing mode. I know Chrome for example shrinks the storage provision for various JS APIs down to practically nothing when in Incognito mode, which can break things like Teams Web etc when you start sharing files.
Either way though all marketing ever is, is just a selection of carefully chosen words. In this case, browsers too, as there's no Brave there (I'm not a fan of Brave anyway, but worth noting)
Precisely why these "feature comparisons" are bogus.
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The 'Enforce users choice' is just GPC on by default I believe. Which means nothing since it is still voluntary.
Yeah Iβm confused about what tracking Chrome blocks that Chredge does not.
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i'm the bestest browser guys, i swear. source: trust me bro.
(I use firefox before y'all come for my neck)
We Dutchies had a commercial like that.
Loosely translated: "We from WC duck recommend WC duck products."
Its kind of like Simplex Chat claiming to be more secure and private than everything else. (Solid platform though)
Safari needs a tick in βcopy urls without site trackingβ since ios17 and macOS Sonoma
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/remove-tracking-information-urls-safari/
Copy without tracking has been hit or miss for me on Firefox
I just gave up and went back to using ClearURLs add-on. Nothing else seems to work as reliably, not even adding rules to uBO.
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I think this is a shitpost of the highest order. If this appears to everyone (?) it adds nothing, and the crappy table is just astonishingly blatant cherry-picking.
That's how all these tables are. If a vendor presents a table comparing themselves to competitors, it's going to be cherry picked.
I think it's a work of love. :)
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I like using Firefox, but it's a bit ironic to have google analytics tracking on the page you declare to protect the users privacy.
I didn't get that but I guess because I have a plugin to give me nice backgrounds on new tabs.
But yeah, shots fired. Nice!
The only issue is that only already existing Firefox users see this, and we already know this.
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They need to add a row for ~~"Owned by a foreign superpower"~~"Owned by the Chinese government" and a check for Opera.
Everyone knows the world is divided into:
- United States
- Everyone Else
How is Mozilla owned by the US government?
On one hand, yeah. On the other hand, that could be a point in its favor, depending on your threat model. After all, if you're American, China can't prosecute you for secrets it learns from Opera the way the FBI could prosecute you for secrets it learns from Google.
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Literally every single entry is owned by a foreign superpower.
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Of these type of browser privacy comparisons the best I have found so far is https://privacytests.org/
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Conveniently excluding Vivaldi browser.
They included the biggest browsers. They don't need to include every single browser in existence.
Youch, that's just mean!
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Feel free to test your fingerprinting resistance on a stock Firefox-install. https://www.amiunique.org/
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