One quick way to give yourself a privacy boost across all of the browsers listed here is by changing the default search engine. But despite Google's reliance on ad revenue, Chrome engineers are working on rolling out a new privacy-preserving ad-targeting technology called Topics, which the tech giant is testing as a replacement to its failed FLOC project. For the Brave browser, privacy is a core goal, and Mozilla and Microsoft are touting privacy as a way to differentiate their browsers from Google Chrome. Privacy adds another dimension to the competition and to your browser decision.Īpple has made privacy a top priority in all of its products, including its Safari browser. , with Google pushing aggressively for an interactive web to rival native apps and Apple moving more slowly - partly out of concern new features will worsen security and be annoying to use.
Their goal? To build a richly detailed user profile so they can target you with more tailored, clickable and thus profitable advertisements.Īpple and Google are in a war for the web Incidents like Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018 elevated privacy protection on Silicon Valley's priority list by revealing how companies compile reams of data as you traverse the internet. One of the best and easiest ways to start is by adjusting some of your browser settings.
Your browser's default settings still may not be as robust as you'd like in fighting pervasive ad industry trackers. Tell application "Brave Browser" to make new window with properties ĭo shell script "open -a '/Applications/Brave Browser.This story is part of 12 Days of Tips, helping you make the most of your tech, home and health during the holiday season. if application "Brave Browser" is running then If it doesn’t, again, then just paste it in the Editor, delete and retype the double and single quotes, and you should be good to go. It took me a while to get the forum editor to not do that, and I’m still not sure exactly what character is initiating the “code” mode since it happened with an indent from Geany (some kind of tab character?), but what I’m pasting below works - just tried it, then copied it from the preview of this post and tried it again, successfully. The double quotes were “smart quotes” apparently inserted by the forum’s editor and Applescript needed single quotes instead of the slash for the shell script command. app to it and it works in the Editor, now. After I fixed that, the Editor puked on the shell script command, so I added. Note as edit: I made some edits because I realized that the script Editor had changed every instance of “Brave Browser” to “Brave Browser Dev”.
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