Brave is the most private web browser on the market according to research from a privacy expert. Dr. Douglas Leith from the Trinity College Dublin in Ireland concluded that Brave is 'by far the most private of the browsers studied'. The researcher didn't find any identifiers allowing IP tracking or data sharing with servers.
Leith compared six browsers in total. Alongside Brave, he studied the following browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge and Yandex. Brave came out on top, followed by Chrome, Firefox and Safari in the second category. With these browsers an identifier connects directly to a browser instance . Which means that users can remove these identifiers by deleting the browser and reinstalling it.
Edge and Yandex are the least private. Both browsers have 'persistent hardware identifiers' that can be removed, not even after removing the browser and reinstalling it. Edge sends the UUID of the device to Microsoft, while Yandex sends the serial number and MAC address to back-end servers.
Brave market share growing
Even though Google Chrome is still by far the most popular browser on the market, support for Brave private browser is growing. In October last year Brave announced it had doubled its user base in only twelve months. In December the company announced it had 10.4 million monthly active users.
Brave Browser blocks advertisement and tracking software. However, the company is providing advertisement options within its browser; Brave Rewards. Brave stores the user's browsing history locally, and uses that for somewhat personalized advertisements. Only thirty percent of the ad revenue goes to Brave, the rest goes to the user who watched the commercial.
Content creators can also get verified with Brave. By linking their social media platform or website they can get paid for the time Brave users spend on their platform. There are more than 300 thousand content creators.
Download Brave here, and support (this) content creator(s) without being annoyed by ads.
Posted from my blog: https://www.nederob.nl/2020/02/27/brave-most-private-browser-according-to-research/