The browser sees everything — every page, every search, every password typed. Most people never change the default, which is precisely what the defaults are counting on.
Europe's browser bench is shorter than its email bench, so this category is small and honest about it. Each dossier notes who really owns the thing — which in one case is the whole story.
The verdict: What Opera used to be, rebuilt by the people who made it: endlessly customisable, employee-owned in spirit, and funded without selling its users. The power-user's European home.
The verdict: Tor Browser's engineering without the Tor network — designed to make you look like everyone else. The strongest anti-fingerprinting outside Tor itself; pair it with a good VPN and vanish into the crowd.
The verdict: Norwegian by birth, but majority-owned by a Chinese consortium since 2016 — a jurisdiction detail that matters more here than in any other category. Feature-packed, but read the ownership line twice.
