We all use web browsers to search the internet every day. Web browsing generates significant revenues for companies through search engine partnerships, default homepages, extensions and add ons, data collection and analytics, licensing and enterprise solutions, advertising, e-commerce integration, OS integration, donations and support, additional income sources.
Changing your web browsing will remove those revenues for those companies.
Browsers
Parent Company
Revenue (2022)
Apple Safari
Apple Inc.
$394.33 billion
Google Chrome
Google Inc.
$279.8 billion
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Corporation, Inc.
$198 billion
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Corporation
$826.6 million
Opera
Opera Ltd
$330 million
Headquartered in Norway with some chinese ownership
If you type a search into google search, Microsoft Bing and others they will gather your data and monetise it as well as displaying ads relevant to your search.
Change your default search engine to remove this:
mojeek - UK - uses own crawler
metager - Germany - uses Bing, Scopia, Infotiger results
Qwant - France - Bing search results
swisscows - Swiss - Bing search results
Ecosia - Germany - Bing - uses a "Bing client ID"
Startpage - Netherlands - (US Owned). Deidentified Google and Bing results.
Brave Seach - US - has its own crawler and its own browser - see below.
DuckDuckGo - US - Bing and others
Changing your web browser will improve your privacy and reduce revenues to associated companies. More info can be found at privacytests.org
Brave - US
Duckduckgo - US
Vivaldi - Norwegian
LibreWolf - ?
Tor - ?
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