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Which browsers are best for privacy? (privacytests.org)
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I am a little disappointed that Vivaldi did not do so well in this test. What do you think? Is there a way to improve Vivaldi in these areas? Is it necessary? Should privacy-conscious people use another browser?

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[–] accentgrave@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The person doing these tests works for Brave and doesn’t disclose this on the main page. He keeps spamming social media with his results and therefore this comes up time and time again. The main problem is that he refuses to test browsers which have been configured, he always tests them ootb. For Vivaldi this means ad and tracking protection is disabled, even though the choice of setting this up is presented to the user in the very first setup steps (one‐click operation), without the need to visit settings …

I wouldn’t take the results serious. If you want a sliver/the chance of privacy, you have to use Tor browser anyway.

[–] AndreTelevise@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even if this is independent, Brave turns off a lot of the kinds of trackers and scripts that make big corporate social media websites work properly. That's why a lot fo those websites load slower on Brave than on something like Vivaldi.

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