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I don't use Brave and I'm not shilling for it, but it does consistently rate high in privacy research: https://privacytests.org/ https://privacytests.org/ htt

I don't use Brave and I'm not shilling for it, but it does consistently rate high in privacy research: https://privacytests.org/ https://privacytests.org/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study-ranks-edges-default-privacy-settings-the-lowest-of-all-major-browsers/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study...

jeroenhd 4y ago
It should be noted that the person behind privacytests.org is a current Brave employee. That said, I haven't seen any signs of compromise yet; it makes sense that privacy-focused developers end up at privacy-focused companies. However, you can have a good privacy record for protecting users from third parties and still make bad decisions. Not informing users about what websites do or do not take part in the crypto collection programme from the start was a bad decision IMO. Altering URLs to insert referrer codes is also a bad idea. This doesn't mean Brave doesn't try to protect your privacy, but it's still quite user hostile in my opinion.
- suprjami 4y ago
  > the person behind privacytests.org is a current Brave employee I wasn't aware of this, thanks. It doesn't seem like such a good impartial reference now :/ > and still make bad decisions Agree 100%. I hope the Binance fiasco scared Brave into being more honest, and resulted in more scrutiny of their codebase. One more misstep like that and I'd consider Brave completely untrustworthy, regardless of privacy scores or research paper findings.
Markoff 4y ago
> This website and the browser privacy tests are an independent project by me, Arthur Edelstein. I have developed this project on my own time and on my own initiative. Several months after first publishing the website, I became an employee of Brave, where I contribute to Brave's browser privacy engineering efforts. Don't ever link such biased website shilling for Brave.
- suprjami 4y ago
  As I said above, I wasn't aware of this. You might also consider improving your tone.

jeroenhd 4y ago

It should be noted that the person behind privacytests.org is a current Brave employee. That said, I haven't seen any signs of compromise yet; it makes sense that privacy-focused developers end up at privacy-focused companies. However, you can have a good privacy record for protecting users from third parties and still make bad decisions. Not informing users about what websites do or do not take part in the crypto collection programme from the start was a bad decision IMO. Altering URLs to insert referrer codes is also a bad idea. This doesn't mean Brave doesn't try to protect your privacy, but it's still quite user hostile in my opinion.

suprjami 4y ago
> the person behind privacytests.org is a current Brave employee I wasn't aware of this, thanks. It doesn't seem like such a good impartial reference now :/ > and still make bad decisions Agree 100%. I hope the Binance fiasco scared Brave into being more honest, and resulted in more scrutiny of their codebase. One more misstep like that and I'd consider Brave completely untrustworthy, regardless of privacy scores or research paper findings.

Markoff 4y ago

> This website and the browser privacy tests are an independent project by me, Arthur Edelstein. I have developed this project on my own time and on my own initiative. Several months after first publishing the website, I became an employee of Brave, where I contribute to Brave's browser privacy engineering efforts. Don't ever link such biased website shilling for Brave.

suprjami 4y ago
As I said above, I wasn't aware of this. You might also consider improving your tone.