Brave vs Fairphone
Based on our analysis, Brave is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Brave | Fairphone |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | A · 86/100 | B- · 68/100 |
| What they collect | Positive (88) | Mixed (65) |
| Who they share it with | Positive (85) | Mixed (72) |
| What you can do | Positive (84) | Mixed (63) |
| What they promise | Positive (83) | Mixed (68) |
Brave's browser collects no browsing history and routes most sensitive requests through its own proxies to strip your IP address — the privacy architecture is genuinely sophisticated — but it's a US company, Safe Browsing on mobile exposes your IP to Google or Apple, and Leo AI feedback submissions can include full conversation transcripts retained for a year.
View full analysis →Fairphone doesn't sell your data and has a genuinely ethical mission, but it runs retargeting ads, sends your full IP address to Bloomreach for segmentation, keeps contract data for a minimum of seven years, defaults to anonymisation rather than deletion when you ask for your data to be removed, and forum posts older than 60 days can never be fully deleted.
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