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<blockquote data-quote="9724anon7537" data-source="post: 934064" data-attributes="member: 73003">The following review was conducted by <a href="https://www.twitter.com/bravesampson" target="_blank">Sampson</a>, Senior Developer Relations Specialist at Brave.When a Web browser first launches, it typically goes through an initial setup phase where various resources are requested, downloaded, configured, and more. You can learn quite a bit about a browser from observing the requests it makes in its first moments with a new user profile. Often, a cursory examination will tell you a great deal about how the browser thinks about, and handles, user privacy and security.In the past we at Brave have taken a look at <a href="https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traffic-results/" target="_blank">desktop</a> and <a href="https://brave.com/ios-browser-first-run/" target="_blank">iOS</a> browsers, to see what they do in the first moments of being launched with a fresh user profile. It’s important to us that we keep a close eye on Brave in particular. Similar efforts have been conducted by others, such as the <a href="https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf" target="_blank">2020 work of Douglas Leith</a>, which will be referenced throughout this review.This effort compared the first-run experiences of five popular browsers: Brave, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera. Each of these readings were conducted on an updated Windows 10 (Version 20H2, Build 19042.804) desktop computer, with an authenticated Microsoft account.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="9724anon7537, post: 934064, member: 73003"] [I]The following review was conducted by [URL='https://www.twitter.com/bravesampson']Sampson[/URL], Senior Developer Relations Specialist at Brave.[/I] When a Web browser first launches, it typically goes through an initial setup phase where various resources are requested, downloaded, configured, and more. You can learn quite a bit about a browser from observing the requests it makes in its first moments with a new user profile. Often, a cursory examination will tell you a great deal about how the browser thinks about, and handles, user privacy and security. In the past we at Brave have taken a look at [URL='https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traffic-results/']desktop[/URL] and [URL='https://brave.com/ios-browser-first-run/']iOS[/URL] browsers, to see what they do in the first moments of being launched with a fresh user profile. It’s important to us that we keep a close eye on Brave in particular. Similar efforts have been conducted by others, such as the [URL='https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf']2020 work of Douglas Leith[/URL], which will be referenced throughout this review. This effort compared the first-run experiences of five popular browsers: Brave, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera. Each of these readings were conducted on an updated Windows 10 (Version 20H2, Build 19042.804) desktop computer, with an authenticated Microsoft account. [URL unfurl="true"]https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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