{"id":150308,"date":"2026-01-05T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/?p=150308"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:01:50","slug":"what-is-the-most-private-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/what-is-the-most-private-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Most Private Browser?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"daves-3228839800\" class=\"daves-single-post-before-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><p>The latest story doing the rounds on tech sites is based on the results of a &#8220;study&#8221; by a company called Digitain to ascertain levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/which-is-the-best-browser\/\">browser privacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Digitain report, Google Chrome is by far the least private browser&#8230; well, no sh*t Sherlock. In the study, rankings for browsers were evaluated on how they handled privacy, anti-fingerprinting, tracker and data blocking, connection, and navigation security. Here then are the results (scores are out of 100, and the lower the score, the better):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>ChatGPT Atlas &#8211; 99<\/li>\n<li>Google Chrome -76<\/li>\n<li>Vivaldi &#8211; 75<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Edge &#8211; 63<\/li>\n<li>Opera &#8211; 58<\/li>\n<li>Ungoogled &#8211; 55<\/li>\n<li>Mozilla Firefox &#8211; 50<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Remove 1-8xx Warning In Apple\u2019s Safari\" href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/remove-1-8xx-warning-in-apples-safari\/\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"220\">Apple Safari<\/a> &#8211; 49<\/li>\n<li>DuckDuckGo &#8211; 44<\/li>\n<li>Tor &#8211; 40<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mainstream-Browsers.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150312\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mainstream-Browsers.png\" alt=\"mainstream-browsers\" width=\"506\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mainstream-Browsers.png 506w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mainstream-Browsers-350x64.png 350w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mainstream-Browsers-150x28.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As it happens, I tend to agree with the rankings. However, that is based on experience plus common sense. I certainly wouldn&#8217;t need a &#8220;study&#8221; to tell me that Chrome is the least private of the mainstream browsers. And we&#8217;ve already reported on the dangers of the new AI Browsers (such as ChatGPT Atlas): <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/ai-too-much-too-soon\/\">Beware AI Browsers!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though I tend to agree with the rankings, I have two serious concerns over the authenticity of Digitain&#8217;s study and its findings:<\/p><div id=\"daves-2735326447\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>It&#8217;s been widely acknowledged that <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/brave-browser-review-first-impressions\/\">Brave<\/a> is the most privacy-focused of the mainstream browsers, and any study of this type that omits Brave is surely lacking in credibility<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d never heard of Digitain, so I looked it up, fully expecting to see a security company or maybe an online privacy consultancy. But no&#8230; Digitain actually specializes in sports betting and gaming platform technology. Consequently, I have serious doubts about Digitain&#8217;s qualifications to perform any such study<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the end, as I mentioned earlier, any experienced user could easily come up with very similar rankings, and without the need for a so-called study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOTTOM LINE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>This story is more of the same clickbait from <a title=\"Tech Site Journalism Reaches All-Time Low\" href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/tech-site-journalism-reaches-all-time-low\/\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"221\">tech sites<\/a>, stating the obvious while dressing it up as some sort of startling revelation.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, it amuses me no end that Chrome is widely recognized as the least private of the mainstream browsers yet continues to dominate market share. Go figure!<\/p><div id=\"daves-1107987362\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content-2\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div id=\"daves-2535309149\" class=\"daves-after-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3225321574\" \ndata-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest story doing the rounds on tech sites is based on the results of a &#8220;study&#8221; by a company called Digitain to ascertain levels of browser privacy. According to the Digitain report, Google Chrome is by far the least private browser&#8230; well, no sh*t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,128],"tags":[5235,127],"class_list":["post-150308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-browser","category-privacy-2","tag-browser","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150333,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150308\/revisions\/150333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}