- May 16, 2013
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Let’s face it: human beings love to compare. Our insistence to quantify, judge, and rank everything under the sun has resulted in lists covering everything from the best universities to the worst Adam Sandler movies (which you can easily stream, should you dare).
Clearly, some rankings are more important than others. So how about a security and privacy ranking for the four most popular web browsers? With the average person spending anywhere between 20 to 27 hours on the Internet every week, it is natural to wonder which of the biggest web browsers give us the best online security and privacy. Well, fret not, because that’s exactly what we’re all here to find out.
The nine contestants
First, we take measure of the four goliaths: Chrome and Internet Explorer, each having been, at some time, the leader in browser market share, and Safari and Firefox, the former being a favored choice for Apple users and the latter being the only major browser that is open source.
Next we dig a little deeper at the less popular but nonetheless powerful browsers that claim to prioritize your security and privacy. We cover Brave, EPIC Privacy Browser, Chromium, Opera, and Tor Browser.
Let’s see how these nine browsers rank next to each other.
Finding a winner: Counting stars
To decide which web browser is best in terms of security and privacy, they will be evaluated in three key areas: number of days between updates, an evaluation of the browser’s security features, and an evaluation of its privacy tools. Each browser will be graded (out of five stars) in each of the three areas, ultimately yielding a composite score out of fifteen.
Ranked: Security and privacy for the most popular web browsers in 2018
