Privacy-First Browsers Look To Take the Shine Off Google's Chrome

'Google's Chrome now reigns as the biggest browser on the block, and
the company is facing challenges similar to Microsoft's from
competitors, as well as government scrutiny. But Google faces a new
wrinkle -- a growing realization among consumers that their every
digital move is tracked. "I think Cambridge Analytica acted as a
catalyst to get people aware that their data could be used in ways
they didn't expect," said Peter Dolanjski, the product lead for
Mozilla's Firefox web browser, referring to the scandal in which a
political consulting firm obtained data on millions of Facebook users
and their friends.

And in something of a poetic role reversal, Microsoft is positioning
itself to pick up the slack from people who may be fed up with
Google's Chrome browser and its questionable privacy practices.
Microsoft is expected to release an overhaul of its latest browser,
called Edge, in the coming months. Microsoft is just one of a number
of companies and organizations looking to take a piece out of Google
-- some using the company's own open-source software. One name that
might be familiar to most consumers -- Mozilla's Firefox browser -- is
also a veteran of the "browser wars" of two decades ago. The nonprofit
Mozilla, which has been biting at the heels of leading browsers for
most of its existence, is introducing more aggressive privacy settings
to try to stand out and take advantage of the privacy stumbles by
Google and other tech giants.'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/07/05/152233

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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