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Honestly I don't see the reason they put that there. I already own Firefox why are you trying to win me over?
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Safari needs a tick in βcopy urls without site trackingβ since ios17 and macOS Sonoma
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/remove-tracking-information-urls-safari/
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Of these type of browser privacy comparisons the best I have found so far is https://privacytests.org/
There's a line "Insecure website warning" and it says firefox doesn't have it. My firefox always displays a warning when opening a http site. edit: Isn't https-only enabled by default?
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I'd rather them just put up the results of the chrome lawsuit rather than a marketing table lol.
You love it?
I bet you hate Google doing self ads?
Yet this is also just a self ad. And spammy, because it pops open a tab, something browsers are supposed to suppress unless specifically enabled.
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Conveniently excluding Vivaldi browser.
And DuckDuckGo Browser
And Brave too, which inconveniently beats firefox hands down in independent privacy checks. The mozilla foundation finally needs to step it up.
I have no idea why you were down voted. These are facts, not opinions
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That heavily depends. Brave may have better advice/tracker blocking by default, but they send more telemetry. Them being an advertising company also doesnβt speak for them. Brave is a decent browser and on IOS/IPadOS a good option for open source + Adblock, but max privacy would be reconfigured Firefox or Librewolf.
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those tables usually are wrong or misleading, i don't like them.
Edge for example has the 3rd party cookie blocking and it works ok, so why it's "no" and not "somewhat" or similar?
Yeah Iβm confused about what tracking Chrome blocks that Chredge does not.
Does it, though? Or does Microsoft come under the second party label
if i enable it, most websites don't load ads at all, including MSN news that's ad-ridden
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I dont see the line "3rd party cookie blocking"
should be "prevent sites from tracking". Or they carefully chose that sentence in order to give a "no" to edge and "somewhat" to chrome and opera
Firefox uses a built-in domain blocklist for tracking protection, in addition to blocking third party cookies
Although that would not explain why Chrome and Opera pass that at all to begin with IMO. Maybe these browsers enforce their own additional data silos or other deviations from specs when in Private Browsing mode. I know Chrome for example shrinks the storage provision for various JS APIs down to practically nothing when in Incognito mode, which can break things like Teams Web etc when you start sharing files.
Either way though all marketing ever is, is just a selection of carefully chosen words. In this case, browsers too, as there's no Brave there (I'm not a fan of Brave anyway, but worth noting)
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