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Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business
The folks behind Surfshark VPN have looked to see which mobile browsers are most likely to compromise your privacy.
What might come as a surprise to many, is that Chrome is the only browser that collects financial information, such as payment methods, card numbers, and bank account details. “It is often explained that browsers collect data to personalize and improve a user’s experience,” Tomas Stamulis, Surfshark’s chief security officer said in a statement. While they do gather some contact information — identifiers such as user IDs, which are necessary for things like session management, as well as usage data and diagnostics, but basically offer a balance between functionality and privacy.
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