Benchmarks Don't Lie: Putting the Privacy-Kills-Performance Myth to Rest
The conventional wisdom that privacy-focused browsers are slower than their mainstream counterparts has persisted for years, but the data tells a more complicated story. Drawing on real-world benchmarks and conversations with Arora's core contributors, this piece examines where the performance trade-offs actually exist, where they have been engineered away entirely, and why the choice between speed and security is far less binary than the industry narrative suggests.
