Poll What Browser(s) are you using in 2024-2026?

[MyMW_Tips_logon]

Brave... Above all else I want security and privacy. I have a couple of spreadsheets I revisit a couple of times a year to check on (test) the current releases. I've been doing this a couplel of years now. I found that u just cannot be sure with most of them that they are not going to falter on the tests. The only one where speed is a huge issue is Tor and anyone who know's how Tor works to achieve its perpetual Best for Anonymity understands why this is and accepts it as the cost of that Anonymity. Brave has Tor windows which help it get closer to Tor in this area, but it still is not Tor. That said, Brave is the Best IMO. It is important to remember that Brave, Chrome, Edge, and Opera are Chromium based to different degrees so this makes them about the same as Chrome, except Brave, which is all about Privacy. They all get the same Chromium updates for security, but Brave also updates Privacy. They are all similar in Benchmark Speed Tests, but Brave removes a lot of telemetry and tracking code and is faster. It is also faster because it blocks ads. YouTube is a total different experience with Brave.

The one test all of them but one chokes on is EFF's Cover Your Tracks. The only one that consistently passes the CYT tests is Brave.

Here are the browsers I check: Brave, Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, LibreWolf, Mullvad, Tor, Vivaldi, Opera

 

[Jonny Quest]

Is EFF's Cover Your Tracks still (or was it ever) a trustworthy browser test site?

Edit: I just copied and pasted my above question into Perplexity and this was one of the comments:

Important limitations​

Cover Your Tracks only tests a specific, finite set of fingerprinting and tracking techniques, so it does not cover the full range of methods used by sophisticated trackers in the wild. Community discussions consistently note that the site can mislead users into overestimating or misunderstanding their actual fingerprinting resistance, especially when focusing solely on the “unique fingerprint” message.

 

[Sampei.Nihira]

Is EFF's Cover Your Tracks still (or was it ever) a trustworthy browser test site?

Edit: I just copied and pasted my above question into Perplexity and this was one of the comments:

Are you interested in knowing if your PC is protected from trackers?

 

[Jonny Quest]

Are you interested in knowing if your PC is protected from trackers?

Not so much my PC, but just confirming Brave's results in Cover My Tracks, which according to that snippet of information from their site, seems to pass. But, it sounds like it's just a thumbnail sketch of what is happening behind the scenes of a browser and web surfing. I do have Brave's Shield set to Aggressively block.

In general, here's where I'm at and am "okay" with it. Thank you for asking, though

Question Post in thread 'Can we talk about online privacy and anonymity again?'

Dec 15, 2025

I change some settings in the Windows settings (without breaking its functionally like @lokamoka820 mentioned above), routinely use Brave, and a VPN. That's about it regarding privacy compared to security (browser extensions, AV's browser protection etc.)

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