Ironically installing these extensions requires a trip to the Chrome Web Store which is already a step away from privacy! For myself, I believe I will start downloading. Should keep Cloudflare and Google Hosted Libraries at bay, as well as other tracking CDN’s. PrivacyBadger from the EFF (Electronic Freedom Foundation) so unlike some commercial ad-blockers (contradiction in terms) like Ghostery, we can trust them. PrivacyBadger, which anonymously tracks your browsing habits and finds and blocks trackers as you come across them.Sessions are a privacy-friendly alternative to cookies. Can break some sessions when using advanced websites. ClearURLs, which prevent tracking parameters from being added to URLs.If you’d like to add some additional privacy-focused extensions, here’s a few with which to start. Frankly I wish Brave would just charge for the browser and drop all the other somewhat hare-brained, “innovative” schemes to make money.
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#Iridium or icecat for free#
As no browser developers are able to charge for the browser (a tradition brought into play by Microsoft with its Internet Explorer built and released for free to destroy Netscape Navigator), almost all browser developers owe their living to the bad guys.Įloston (unGoogled Chromium) does what he does as a matter of principle. The other browsers fail by design: they are not meant to be private and are beholden to either advertisers or Google. With Firefox and some elbow grease, it’s possible to pass these tests. If you’re wondering why I didn’t test Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Vivaldi, Edge, it’s because they would all fail these tests. Setting up and managing privacy on unGoogled Chromium is just too much trouble and probably weaker than what Brave builds right into the browser. In the meantime, if you’re in a hurry but would still like to block ad-tracking and protect your privacy Brave would be the browser train on which to jump.
#Iridium or icecat portable#
Resetting users’ browsers whenever they move from one machine to another or migrate machines is extremely unfriendly to power users or people who practice portable computing. Eloton and Brave should be catering to their customer, not a fantasy world in which everyman is their customer. It’s all well to dream of a world in which no surfer leaves the house on anything except a privacy-respecting browser, that time is a long way off.
While simple users may need nannying to make sure they don’t accidentally move their browser profile onto their friends’ computer with all the logins intact, the kind of users which unGoogled Chromium and Brave attract know better. Every time you reopen Brave on a new computer (using the same disk or migrated data (including using Apple’s Migration Tool), Brave disables all extensions.Īll of these “privacy” focused browsers should not be allowing hardware ID and forced preference/extension zeroing. Chrome’s machine ID raises its ugly head again.The randomisation was not entirely impressive (most of the information was accurate and non-random).Brave did not have any additional privacy extensions added but I had set Brave preferences to be as anti-tracking as possible.Straight out of the box, Brave Browser does manage to block tracking ads and invisible trackers, while randomising your browser fingerprint.
One serious issue though with protecting via extension is that Ungoogled Chromium allows Googles machine ID technology which means your profile is reset every time you move between computers or even sneeze. Ungoogled Chromium could be made much more robust by adding a few extensions and tweaking it a bit. Partial success for Ungoogled Chromium in vanilla configuration Starts by opening up Google’s About Chrome page, bringing down Google on your head before you even have time to add any extensions to block Google. Iridium (Version 2021.10)įail on all counts: Iridium fails on all counts
#Iridium or icecat pro#
Here’s how these top privacy browsers score on my Mac Pro running Big Sur 11.6.1. Only a browser which is on your side, pro-actively blocking these measures can (partially) protect your privacy. Of course a surfer’s extension profile changes and s/he may change something about his or her computer (RAM for instance or storage or monitor) but it’s pretty easy to track an individual even without cookies. The latter deserves explanation: by gathering information about your computer, your monitor, your browser extensions, your IP, your time-zone settings, companies like Google with their Chrome browser are effectively able to identify an individual down to one in a million. The EFF has created a test called Cover Your Tracks which tests browsers for their ability to block tracking ads, block invisible trackers and prevent browser fingerprinting. Talk is cheap and fortunately the EFF is here to referee. All of Iridium, unGoogled Chromium and Brave Browser make bold claims for privacy.
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