Worried about your privacy? One of the most sensitive elements in this sense is the web browser, an application that, by its definition, is constantly exposed to the elements of the Internet with all the risks that this entails. And how does your browser behave in this regard? Let’s take a look at it.

There are many ways to check the level of privacy offered not only by your browser but also by the settings you use At the same time, it is a fundamental step and a different fact to improve what is supplied as standard, and that not everything is as it seems at first glance, even if, having barely touched the surface of the problem, we are in certain “truths” throughout years.

An interesting service for the given task is PrivacyTests.org, which foregrounds a huge technical table listing the specifications of the major browsers on the market in relation to their default privacy protections, should be noted. Interesting information, but biased precisely because of this last information.

For a simple reason: the difference between the default browser configuration and another customized configuration is huge in terms of privacy. For this reason, and because the person responsible for the site is an employee of Brave Software, the developer of the Brave browser, the default information offered by PrivacyTests.org is often considered biased. However, it is a resource to consider.

PrivacyTests.org

The battery of tests that PrivacyTests.org contains is important and can be run by anyone in a very specific way, as it is based on many individual and open source tests. The problem is that getting it off the ground is not a task ordinary mortals can achieve. Not that it’s too difficult, but…

If you’re interested in trying it out, the material and instructions are available on GitHub. If you give it a little time, you’re done. You probably don’t want to get into this mess or screw up your system in the process. There is an alternative without leaving the site.

If you enter this link, you can run PrivacyTests.org just one click, yes, in a more limited way as it does not cover all available tests or categories – some of which are only targeted at development versions of browsers or specific circumstances. Be that as it may, it’s not a bad way to go.

Now, just compare your test results to what PrivacyTests.org shows on its cover to see how the story changes, and also to see where to look to improve your web browser’s privacy settings or alternatives to which you might be interested in.