> Firefox literally sends your keystrokes to Google, right out of the box. This is a touch of FUD. Firefox sends what you type into the search/address bar to g

> Firefox literally sends your keystrokes to Google, right out of the box. This is a touch of FUD. Firefox sends what you type into the search/address bar to google for search suggestions by default, yes. Your perhaps unintended implication here is that all keystrokes are being logged and sent to google. > Brave, however, was found to be the most private popular browser by reputable researchers: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf. This is a bit of a misstatement of the research; Rather they found that Brave doesn't tag users' installs with persistent IDs by default in startup telemetry or update requests, while most of the rest of the competition do. This means Brave has a superior initial privacy state but says nothing about the overall usage posture. Is it better? Possibly but that's not the conclusion the researchers actually came to. Here's an example of why the first line of FUD is dangerous: "Brave's BAT is basically just a way for users to be tracked as they go about navigating the web." This is an easy throw-away statement with little substance and likely little to no truth behind it. A more concrete example might be that the so-called "Privacy Preserving Product Analytics API" that collects data on Brave users' installs gets enough data to pretty easily fingerprint a user if you wanted to. You don't need many data points to identify an individual from a large group.