Privacy and Security Comparison of Web Browsers: A Review

ABSTRACT

In today's digital world, mobile phones, computers, laptops and other digital devices are the most important things. The global pandemic like, Covid-19 has drastically changed the whole world, and in the post Covid world, most of the businesses are switching to online business, online marketing, online customer service, etc. Due to this, the usage of web browsers has increased exponentially. So, when we are using the internet to a very much great extent then, there are also chances of getting tracked, hacked, or cyber-bullying, etc. Hence, there comes the need for privacy protection while internet surfing in web browsers. In this paper, we have surveyed different research papers. This paper focuses on the popular desktop browsers on Windows such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Brave, Tor, etc. This work studies the different parameters considered for privacy leakage;different methods used for evaluation both in normal browsing mode and in private browsing mode. The work proposed that the documentation given for the private mode for popular browsers is not complete, and also that users' privacy, can be leaked.