Security isn’t a big differentiator today when choosing a web browser. First of all, 3 of the top 5 browsers all use the same engine – Chrome, Edge and Opera are all based on Chromium. Second, there’s no real conflict of interest between browser makers and browser users when it comes to security – it’s a win-win situation. Also, most browsers today are plenty fast enough and come with similar user features. So to me, the real differentiator when choosing a web browser is privacy. Today I’ll give you my top choices for the most privacy-respecting web browser. (Spoiler alert: Chrome didn’t make the list.)

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In other news: The US and 60 other countries have signed an aspiration Declaration for the Future of the Internet; in a twist of fate, Russia is now the target of global hacking; another nasty Java zero-day bug has been found; leaked Cellebrite documents detail which iPhones they can hack into; Amazon and third parties are mining your Alexa requests for personal data; Microsoft is going to add a free VPN to its Edge browser; Facebook is pulling detailed user data from the US college financial aid site FAFSA; and apparently Facebook has no clue how to tell the source of all the data it collects (making it impossible to comply with privacy regulations); Google is now giving you a way to remove some person info from its searches; and Brave and DuckDuckGo are both blocking Google “AMP” links which collect data about the sites you visit.