PrivacyTests reveals how your web browser does privacy-wise [Article] aka "chromium's functional analogue to Firefox's Total Cookie Protection"
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A forum search reveals that we already know of this site, & i suspect many of us look at it with a sense of askance. Nevertheless, this morn i did choose to read https://www.ghacks.net/2022/06/15/privacytests-reveals-how-your-web-browser-does-privacy-wise/.
I did not bother at all visiting the actual PT site itself, not least for these two quotes:
bare bones Chromium-based browsers ... in their default configurations
The website is run by Arthur Edelstein, who became an employee of Brave after the creation of the site, according to the About page on the site. Edelstein claims that the site is run independently of Brave and that there is "no connection with Brave marketing efforts".
However, reading the comments section of this ghacks article proved most worthwhile, coz it revealed that chromium is now providing some kind of functional analogue to Firefox's laudable Total Cookie Protection:
Sampei Nihira said on June 15, 2022 at 2:49 pm
ββ¦β¦β¦.this will change once Total Tracking Protection is enabled for more usersβ
Even in chrome-based browsers you can turn on a flag and get something like this:
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/chips/Coriy said on June 15, 2022 at 8:01 pm
In case anyone using a Chromium is interested, you can activaye the CHIPS origin trial using two flags: 1)Partioned Cookies
and 2)Partitioned cookies: bypass origin trial
. Both are needed as the second forces many (most/all) websites to partition the cookies rather than just a few that have opted in.Coriy said on June 16, 2022 at 2:44 am
I checked and the Partition Cookies flags are both present in the latest nightly for Vivaldi.That aforementioned article https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/chips/ is well-worth also reading; as well as the two flags, it also gives the alternative command launcher option
--partitioned-cookies=true
.So, i've now enabled both flags, & shall sally forth to evaluate via my usual daily browserising.
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@guigirl said in PrivacyTests reveals how your web browser does privacy-wise [Article] aka "chromium's functional analogue to Firefox's Total Cookie Protection":
So, i've now enabled both flags, & shall sally forth to evaluate via my usual daily browserising.
Oh good.
That means I don't have to try it, I'll just wait for your report(s) -
@TbGbe said in PrivacyTests reveals how your web browser does privacy-wise [Article] aka "chromium's functional analogue to Firefox's Total Cookie Protection":
I don't have to try it
Oh don't be such a wuss -- dive in, the water's fine!
As you kinda sorta know, i've been flipping back & forth for a few years now between Snappie & Nightly. Not entirely, but almost entirely, it's Nightly's [FF's] many privacy controls that keep me gravitating back to it. One of those is TCP [indeed, FF overall is simply far superior with native cookie control compared to chromium]. Hence, discovering this morning this ostensible TCP analogue in chromium, is hugely bigly important to me. I hope that other Vivaldifarians might also find it attractive... except maybe those with an elevated CoW*
*Coefficient of Wussness
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@guigirl said in PrivacyTests reveals how your web browser does privacy-wise [Article] aka "chromium's functional analogue to Firefox's Total Cookie Protection":
except maybe those with an elevated CoW
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@guigirl This is hilarious and at the same time very promising good news.
Hilarious because Brave most excellent score and the owner of the site being an employee of Brave. The whole thing is like Native Advertising
A solid report on the
*Tyranny of the Default*
would have been better.Promising good news because of CHIPS.
I just wish they would just copy Firefox's approach to cookie management and call it a day. Is that too much to ask -
Pretty funny that this topic is still here.
The topic I created on this subject a couple of days ago was deleted by @Pathduck and merged into an old topic about that site that probably almost no one here will ever see.
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So is the data on the website incorrect or what?
https://privacytests.org