Data slurping: Browsers compared

Study from Surfshark: Chrome is the most data-hungry popular mobile browser - Surfshark

Please note the… ahem… embedded trackers, including (apparently unironically) Google itself, in Surfshark’s own website.

Here’s a Reg article about it (also infected with tracker nastiness): Which mobile browser is the worst for data collection? • The Register

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I would like to have seen some of the other forked browsers compared, e.g. LibreWolf, Chromium, ungoogled-chromium, etc.

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It does have the source data (in Google spreadsheet).

I’d compare to the other comparison data table, from your other thread form last fall: Web Browsers: test results for privacy and security [since both give partial view of the privacy/security limits of browsers]

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Does the Google spreadsheet contain browsers other than the ones in the main article? (I’m not going to click on it myself. Lol!)

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For this, I can get it via work comp. Here:

[edit: this may be the next default comparison browser that makes all those others seem private: https://forums.puri.sm/t/was-any-browser-ever-good/27904/13?u=jr-fi]

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