The Worst Browser To Use On Your iPhone, According To Security Experts
January 13, 2022 by Lisa Cupido
With so much talk about the apps that can be invading your privacy big time and using your data to sell to advertisers (hello, Facebook), it’s important to remember that the web browser that you rely on each day is also worth considering because it can cause both battery drainage AND privacy breaches. If you can’t tell the difference between Firefox and Chrome or really don’t believe there is much of a difference, Tech Expert Danka Delic at ProPrivacy is here to set the record straight — this is the worst browser to use on your iPhone — and two additional browsers to keep on your use-sparingly radar.
YandexA while ago, Trinity College Dublin researchers ranked the most popular browser in Russia — Yandex — as one of the least private ones on the market, Delic explains. “Not only does it have a huge problem with data collection and sharing, it also sends persistent identifiers that can link requests to back-end servers,” Delic says. “There were even instances in the past when Yandex was transmitting a hashed hardware identifier to back-end servers via the search autocomplete function. Worst of all – the Yandex opting-out methods are completely unreliable. All in all, Yandex is not to be trusted on iPhone or any other device.”
And, a little closer to home, there are a few other browsers to watch out for.