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This is disingenuous. The report focuses on different browsers' ability to automatically detect and block URLs of phishing pages and malware downloads. All thre
by kevhito 9y ago
This is disingenuous. The report focuses on different browsers' ability to automatically detect and block URLs of phishing pages and malware downloads. All three browsers have some kind of automatic URL blocking, and this report claims that Edge is the best.
At a glance, the results don't look immediately credible to me: I didn't see an explanation of how they chose the specific URLs, why there is a difference between the browsers, or the false-positive rate. But the study is, at least, actually comparing browser "security", and isn't comparing user behavior or anything like that.
Disclosure: I've never used Edge.
- johncolanduoni 9y agoI didn't think that they were studying user behavior, but saying Edge has better security, full stop, based only on a study that only examines the URL blocking capabilities (and not e.g. protection from malicious JavaScript) is pretty silly.