{"id":209638,"date":"2026-02-03T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/i-tested-a-privacy-browser-for-a-week-and-stopped-trusting-my-main-browser\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:15:08","slug":"i-tested-a-privacy-browser-for-a-week-and-stopped-trusting-my-main-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/i-tested-a-privacy-browser-for-a-week-and-stopped-trusting-my-main-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"I tested a &#8220;privacy browser&#8221; for a week and stopped trusting my main browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/brave-privacy-browser-switch-from-chrome\/\">I tested a &#8220;privacy browser&#8221; for a week and stopped trusting my main browser<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/brave-privacy-browser-switch-from-chrome\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/brave-privacy-browser-switch-from-chrome\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-03 14:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t always stayed loyal to a browser. I used Firefox for years and, when I got my first MacBook, I stuck with Safari for a while. I used Edge for a while when I switched to a Windows laptop. But, eventually, I was using Google Drive so much for work that I switched over to Google Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome has been my long-time browser for the past seven or eight years. I&#8217;ve stuck with Chrome even after reading all about how unsecure it was as a browser. While I appreciate Google alerting me when a password that I use has shown up in a data breach, I did want more from my browser&#8217;s security. I decided to ease into the privacy browser marketplace and went with Brave, a well-known option by many. I wasn&#8217;t expecting to like it as much as I do though.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThese Are the 7 Best Browsers That Aren&#8217;t Google Chrome<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Chrome is excellent, but it\u2019s not the only game in town.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"brave-does-a-lot-of-what-i-already-like-for-a-browser\">\n                        Brave does a lot of what I already like for a browser<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"bringing-over-my-settings-was-a-treat\">\n            Bringing over my settings was a treat<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;d done&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/brave-privacy-browser-switch-from-chrome\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tested a &#8220;privacy browser&#8221; for a week and stopped trusting my main browser https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/brave-privacy-browser-switch-from-chrome\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/brave.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-209638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy","tag-breach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209640,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209638\/revisions\/209640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}