The feature set we expect from web browsers is largely settled and so, for the last decade or more, they’ve competed with each other based on speed, privacy and security. Judging by comments left on Naked Security, many of you think that Google doesn’t live up to “don’t be evil” Microsoft will never recover from the 1990s Mozilla has sold out to Google’s ad money Apple’s sheen is wearing off and Tor can’t escape its military roots The trouble is, the only companies that can afford to produce such complicated and costly software, for free, are the ones we seem to trust the least. Many of us also trust third party browser plugins to protect us from ads, trackers and malicious scripts (while trusting the browser to protect us from rogue third party plugins with their own ads, trackers and malicious scripts). We trust them to protect us from exploits, drive-by malware and phishing. We put a tremendous amount of trust in browsers simply by using them. It’s a question we like to ask our readers from time to time because when it comes to browsers, trust is important and it’s… well, it’s complicated. Amongst other things, it knows what you see and when it tags along when you visit your friends on social media goes with you to the bank helps you book your holidays and aids and abets you in pursuing your internet vices. You take your web browser with you wherever you go on the web.
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