Browser privacy update
Now that Firefox Desktop has fixed its Blob leak, the browser is passing all of 's State Partitioning (cross-site data leak) tests! And this fix has propagated to LibreWolf as well.
Firefox and LibreWolf join Brave, Mullvad, and Torβ¦
Browser privacy update
In the latest version of , we can see progress in privacy protections: Safari 17.2 has partitioned the Blob API, joining Brave and Firefox-based browsers. Now only Chrome and some Chrome-derived browsers are still leaking dataβ¦
More good privacy news!
The latest test results on confirm that Firefox Nightly and Safari Technology Preview have now fixed their longstanding cross-site Blob leaks. That means we're no longer observing any leaks of tracking data between websites inβ¦
Issue 3 of is out today with tests of the latest browsers. New tests have been run for the first time:
- Alt-Svc tracking test
- System font fingerprinting test
- Tor stream isolation test (on browsers that use Tor, including
@brave
and
@torproject
)
This tweet is problematic because Firefox
- does not block common tracking scripts by default
- does not protect against common fingerprinting leaks by default
- does not protect against tracking via query parameters by default
(Details at )
Browser privacy update
More good news! In the latest issue of , we can see that Opera on Desktop has now shipped the State Partitioning protections recently developed and deployed by the Chromium team.
These State Partitioning protections keep data fromβ¦
Browser Privacy update
I'm happy to be able to report further important progress in browser privacy. New anti-tracking protections introduced in Chrome have now been deployed by
@MicrosoftEdge
.
Specifically, Chrome and Edge have now fixed most browser features that previouslyβ¦
Exciting Web Privacy News
The Web is undergoing a significant advance in privacy at the moment. In recent weeks, the Chrome browser enabled cross-site storage partitioning. That is: many features in Chrome that used to leak data between websites, no longer leak.
In Chrome 117,β¦
Browser Privacy Testing Update
Last week, in the latest issue of , I introduced results from new tests that examine whether common web browsers are leaking the names of the websites you visit via the DNS protocol. The short answer is "π±" but there's hopeβ¦
Browser Privacy Progress Update
In the latest version of (Issue 77), we see that Vivaldi desktop has now adopted substantial State Partitioning protections, joining all other desktop browsers in protecting users against cross-site data leaks.β¦
Today's browser testing results show a big privacy and security advance for
@torproject
's Tor Browser: starting with Tor Browser 11.5, all connections to the web are now secure by default (using HTTPS).
Issue 22 of is out today!
New in this issue: a test for whether browsers protect against cross-site tracking via the CookieStore API.
Thanks to
@s_englehardt
for creating this test!
If you're using Firefox and you want to block third-party tracking scripts and tracking pixels, you need to turn on Firefox Strict Mode. Firefox doesn't block most tracking content by default.
The NSA has confirmed to my office in an unclassified letter that the agency is purchasing Americans' internet browsing data without a warrant. I'm calling on DNI Haines to stop intelligence agencies from buying up Americans' private data being sold illegally by data brokers.
Issue 27 of is out today!
A big advance in web privacy can be seen in today's results: thanks to the rollout of Total Cookie Protection, fresh profiles of the latest version of
@Firefox
are now passing nearly all State Partitioning tests.
@thezedwards
@DuckDuckGo
You can see similar results for desktop and mobile browsers on
(See the tracker content blocking section at the bottom of each page.)
Hi everyone -- developer here (
@arthuredelstein
). I am very happy to say that I have started work at Brave today as a research and privacy engineer. 𧡠(1/5)
I'm happy to report that Vivaldi no longer shows this confusing welcome page. It has been replaced with a new, clearer, welcome sequence, which is a significant improvement. Thank you,
@vivaldibrowser
and
@jonsvt
!
@gribouille450
@korenisko
@vivaldibrowser
The Vivaldi setup is not so easy. Here's a screenshot of the first welcome page on my laptop. All 3 options have "Ad and Tracker Blocker" checked, but it turns out that the ad and tracker blocker is actually disabled!
The Global Privacy Control (
@globalprivctrl
) is a signal that web browsers can send to pages they visit to request that users' data not be sold or shared.
Among Android browsers I tested, only
@Brave
and
@DuckDuckGo
send the GPC signal by default.
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