help with browser privacy

[Guest]

I care a lot with privacy, and I don't like browsers that do not respect our privacy. but how does it work?

usually I use extensions to do that, but I can't prevent the browser from phoning home, meaning, keep TCP connections always active and sending + receiving data btw the browser and the server.

so on seeking this, I found some browsers: Iridium, Liri and Brave.

using Microsoft's TCPview, I know:

- Iridium and Liri, after some time Idle, they close all TCP connections, (they become like in a Offline mode?). nothing is sended or received.
- Brave keeps 1 TCP connection active, despite it does not sends or receives anything.

so, according to what I think, a browser that does not sends anything at all when it's idle, is better right? or could the browser just phone home whenever I load a page or something?

any tips or explanations are apreciated!

 

[bicycle_repair_man]

If a browser doesn't phone home when it's idle, it will do so when it becomes active again. Ultimately, there's no getting around the fact that a browser is going to send some information back to a server and that information will be collated and used for some purpose, whether it's marketing, software patches or usage statistics.

It's not just the browser that collects information; your ISP does as well.

 

[Faux_Grey]

Those are browser keepalives, used between browser and webserver.

Used to keep connections open so you can more-quickly navigate around the website, rather than waiting for the TCP connection to re-establish.

You can mess with these through firefox in about:config



If you're talking about browser telemetry. (usage stats)

Tor/tails browser is great for getting away from those.

 

[shmu26]

safest browsers are chrome, and then firefox

 

[Guest]

safest browsers are chrome, and then firefox

if I was to rank the popular browsers, it would be:

- chrome/Edge for speed. > lose of privacy, increase of speed.
- firefox for security and privacy > lose of speed (about 1 second), gain of privacy and security. more customization than chrome: full themes, one of the greates extension collections, you can make you own themes and all that.
- Vivaldi for a mix of everything > good speed, good privacy/security and awesome customization.
- Opera for a mix btw chrome and firefox in my opinion, but at a lower lavel than vivaldi. Opera supports live themes if I am not mistaken, the security and privacy settings are not that bad and it's fast, specially with turbo ON (that feature saved me a lot in the past with my 128KB connection).
- Internet explorer to download one of the above browsers.

but chrome, definetely is not secure, that's what google want's you to believe. if you go watch some benchmarking about security on a website or youtube, chrome is automatically rejected, it does not even show on the video/text, just by the fact that it phones to google with your private information - like what you search and what you visit.

 

[Guest]

Those are browser keepalives, used between browser and webserver.

Used to keep connections open so you can more-quickly navigate around the website, rather than waiting for the TCP connection to re-establish.

You can mess with these through firefox in about:config



If you're talking about browser telemetry. (usage stats)

Tor/tails browser is great for getting away from those.

Tor seems really cool but it's slow as hell, took 15 seconds to open facebook, even IE is faster than that. Tails is like, 1.1GB installtion package... wow.

 

[Guest]

If a browser doesn't phone home when it's idle, it will do so when it becomes active again. Ultimately, there's no getting around the fact that a browser is going to send some information back to a server and that information will be collated and used for some purpose, whether it's marketing, software patches or usage statistics.

It's not just the browser that collects information; your ISP does as well.

ISP is normal, there is no privacy focused ISP - at least on my country - that does not collects info for marketing purposes... but browsers there are plenty out there, tons, if not millions of them.

 

[Socio]

safest browsers are chrome, and then firefox

if I was to rank the popular browsers, it would be:

- chrome/Edge for speed. > lose of privacy, increase of speed.
- firefox for security and privacy > lose of speed (about 1 second), gain of privacy and security. more customization than chrome: full themes, one of the greates extension collections, you can make you own themes and all that.
- Vivaldi for a mix of everything > good speed, good privacy/security and awesome customization.
- Opera for a mix btw chrome and firefox in my opinion, but at a lower lavel than vivaldi. Opera supports live themes if I am not mistaken, the security and privacy settings are not that bad and it's fast, specially with turbo ON (that feature saved me a lot in the past with my 128KB connection).
- Internet explorer to download one of the above browsers.

but chrome, definetely is not secure, that's what google want's you to believe. if you go watch some benchmarking about security on a website or youtube, chrome is automatically rejected, it does not even show on the video/text, just by the fact that it phones to google with your private information - like what you search and what you visit.

Try a Chome hybrid browser like Brave browser that strips away the google phone home stuff with its built in security and privacy features it is probably the most secure out of the box browser next to Tor.

 

[kelix09]

security is one of the important thing that every guy should think of. Without security there is nothing safe nowadays as there are so much risk of data that criminals steals the important data of user and makes use of them as illegal purpose. Therefore making your all data in secured way is the best option and never hit on any links or pop-ups that you receive while browsing.