used by billions of people remains highly leaky.</p>
<h2 id="how-the-tests-work">How the tests work</h2>
<p>To understand and compare the privacy characteristics of popular web browsers, each browser is subjected to the same suite of rigorous automated tests. Each privacy test examines whether the browser protects against a specific kind of data leak.</p>
<p>The results for all browsers and tests are presented in a <a href="https://privacytests.org">unified table</a>. If a browser is found to protect users 