Security News > 2020 > February > If you're serious about browser privacy, you should probably pass on Edge or Yandex, claims Dublin professor
Microsoft Edge and Yandex are "Much more worrisome" compared to Brave, Chrome, Firefox and Safari, according to a paper on browser privacy published this week.
Douglas J Leith, a comp sci professor at Trinity College Dublin, investigated the network activity of six browsers - Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Brave, Microsoft Edge and Yandex - using a proxy to capture encrypted traffic.
In the paper, Leith said: "We find that the browsers split into three distinct groups from this privacy perspective. In the first group lies Brave, in the second Chrome, Firefox and Safari and in the third group lie Edge and Yandex."
"The requests to Apple include identifiers that persist across browser restarts and so can be used to link requests together and so reconstruct browsing history."
"On firing up these browsers, there's no consent at that point." He would like users to be offered an opt-out along with clear information about the implications of search and autocomplete in the browser.