Brave Most Private Browser According to Research

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…