Vote now! Which web browser do you trust the most?
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Naked Security by Sophos.com is now having a poll. Get your vote (or opinion) in now!
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theVivaldi ......Edited.
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Vivaldi not listed, waste of time.
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@kobi That makes two of us. Besides Tor is not exactly a Web Browser.
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@lamarca said in Vote now! Which web browser do you trust the most?:
... Tor is not exactly a Web Browser.
Yes, that option on the poll made me giggle.
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@lamarca said in Vote now! Which web browser do you trust the most?:
Besides Tor is not exactly a Web Browser.
Interesting. To me it seems that I can browse the web with this https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en - and if I would live in certain countries, the Tor Browser would probably be the only browser I would use for everything apart visiting the official government pages.
To put it into perspective:
That poll is not about: "Which is the browser that offers the most UI configuration options" but "which browser do you trust the most" ...... and when it comes to hard trust the answer is easy:
Neither Vivaldi nor any of the browsers mentioned in the poll because none of them has undergone a full security audit. -
Tor and I2P are recommended to browse Deep Web, for example. The NSA classifies Tor and Tails Linux users as extremists - Source
@quhno said in Vote now! Which web browser do you trust the most?:
That poll is not about: "Which is the browser that offers the most UI configuration options ............
Vero. I am strongly favor performance and simplicity over stuff I have no need for.
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Poll does not include Vivaldi so thread moved from Vivaldi on the Web
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There are more votes for Chrome than Tor, sick.
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@pesala said in Vote now! Which web browser do you trust the most?:
Poll does not include Vivaldi so thread moved
Well done.
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Mind you, I'm sure I could name a few more they are missing. And technically Opera should appear twice - old Opera and current Opera.
I debated for a minute - given the choices - whether I could say I trusted Firefox or new Opera more, and finally chose Opera.
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@sgunhouse Why would you trust a proprietary browser owned by a Chinese consortium over an open source browser? I mean honestly, what's there even to distrust in case of Firefox? You can always say you don't like the browser because of certain features or the design etc, but this has nothing to do with it.
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Discarded Vivaldi as a trusted browser (WTF), giving votes for another browser is not easy. It is clear that this vote gives preferences to open source, for obvious reasons and where in the first line we offer a good privacy. Maybe my choice would be Brave.
TOR is also mentioned (project developed by the US Navy and the NSA), but apart from that it needs masochists to use it in the open Web and only recommended in the Dark Web, always in combination with a good VPN service, talk about a 100% confidence would be quite exaggerated, given that the different intelligence services have it well controlled and it is understood why the capos of criminal organizations use paper notes to communicate.
In short, trust gives a browser that
provides a privacy and security for normal use, the necessary functions to be able to navigate with ease and fluency and that can be adapted to our particular needs.
For everything else better to turn off the computer and take a walk, eluding the surveillance cameras that are on every corner in our city. -
@luetage Well, the Mozillans got caught more than once red handed while pushing spyware - errr tracking software with updates. Didn't go down that well with the users.
Some stuff is still in:
https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/search?p=1&q=www.google-analytics.com&type=&utf8=✓Other that that I can understand that some people trust Chrome the most - Google has at least an excellent track record with patching security holes. If you can live with Google's own spying (most of which can be switched off btw) it is at least quite a secure browser.
I personally prefer chromium with integrated full ffmpeg though. Same security patches as in Chrome but no Google specific stuff inside...
... and before this post gets a strange twist: Yes, I use Vivaldi, and I trust the company fully not to put in stuff I don't want and even to deactivate some Googl-y stuff, which is in the normal chromium code too, but Vivaldi has an added layer of complexity, which can introduce extra bugs. So if it is about raw security, and if I need a full featured browser, I use chromium. If I don't need a fully featured browser and extra security: There are some excellent text only browsers out there which are not even able to execute JS - which makes them very secure because most of the exploits nowadays need at least a bit JS.
For everything else Vivaldi is my browser of choice (and Opera 12 with deactivated JS )
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@quhno That's google analytics… And since the browser is open source they can't hide it. I have no idea about it, but what exactly are they checking with it? Country, language, operating system and screen resolution? – If so that's the exact same thing Vivaldi does and I'm fine with it.
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@luetage You claim that Vivaldi sends analytics stuff to Google?
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@quhno I said no such thing.
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@luetage No offense intended, I too thought that you didn't mean it but as you wrote it it read a bit ambiguous
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I have used Opera (one version or another) for... 18 years now, I guess. Even though the current version bears little resemblance to good old Presto-based versions, it just works. Firefox... they seem to break things every few years. Reliability is a major part of trust - I can't actually say I trust it to work well (or just properly) a couple of months from now. Hence, given the choices I have to say I trust Opera more.
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I remember that some years ago I read, that Baidu was created, because Google refused to reveal the data of its Chinese users to the Chinese government.
I think therefore that using Opera with Baidu is as private as using Chrome with Google, just change the country that stores your data ¬¬