Which browsers with integrated AIs collect the most user data
The big thing with using integrated AI within browsers is that you are potentially giving a lot more access to your user metadata versus just visiting the AIs webpage and doing a search there.
The linked article measures across 23 different types of metadata and in case you think it is just harmless data, it includes data points such as your contacts, location (which can be precise), browser history (what you did in the past), purchases, identifying data (which can be used to build your profile of user behaviour across all the sites you visit), etc.
Although we know that WhatsApp and Facebook already collect and even share this information with others (it is stated in their terms and conditions), many don't realise that allowing their browsers integrated AI to have this access, is potentially just as bad. From the Surfshark report, we can see that Google's data collection is at least as bad as Facebooks. One thing that is different is maybe that Google is not actually sharing that data to their partners (well, it is not stated as far as I know).
But where this is of serious concern, is for political activists, whistle-blowers, or refugees, where there is a real danger of their governments being able to access this data, just because it is collected and stored. And of course, the contacts' info just helps to connect all the dots between everyone's contacts and friends...
So, if you are in any sort of sensitive situation, you want to avoid browser integrated AI, and even consider rather using privacy respecting AI such as Venice or Proton's Lumo.
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