-
privacytests.org
Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.
-
-
InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
-
-
-
-
https://privacytests.org
>impersonates well known influencers to sell their products without their knowledge
That's has been fixed, it affected the minority as crypto is disabled by default on brave.
>their search results appear to be based off of google, despite claiming an independent index. all of your queries may just be going to google anyways
If you have spent maybe 5 minutes using Brave search, you would see the difference, while Goole is filled with stupid SEO spam, Brave has a forums section front and center.
And matching Google's index is a very very good thing, brave search is already better than DDG and probably also bing.
People want google results with better privacy.
>the browser frequently sends telemetry to their servers
Compared to what ?
This is a pretty innovative feature.
Here's the source code for a sample "Hacker News" Goggle. Essentially, it will prioritize domains popular on Hacker News. I could even see a browser plugin that lets you add or remove domains as you visit them.
https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart/blob/main/goggle...
And here's the language syntax.
https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart/blob/main/goggle...
I have zero affiliation with Brave, don't own any crypto, and have opposed Brave's model in the past[0] since I think the ads+tracking benefit small businesses and non-tracked ads will increase costs for startups. But after reading your comment I researched it (you didn't help by providing no sources), and most of these seem wrong. I'll give links so people can decide for themselves:
>impersonates well known influencers to sell their products without their knowledge
Not sure this is a good characterization of the Tom Scott controversy[1]. People could send BAT to creators, and creators could sign up at any time and redeem them. Now they've turned it opt-in, only enabled for "verified creators". I'm not sure what you mean by "sell their products".
>constantly pushes their cryptocurrency, functionality completely unrelated to web browsing and of negative value to anyone caring about their privacy
Crypto seems like the whole point, not "completely unrelated". Instead of you being tracked for ads, advertisers pay to show you non-targeted notification ads and you're given a percentage of the ad cost as BAT. It's an attempt to align the incentives of adblocking/privacy-preservation, websites, and advertisers.
>their search results appear to be based off of google, despite claiming an independent index. all of your queries may just be going to google anyways
Huh? Read TFA. Brave has their own crawlers, the Web Discovery Project, and their search results are now 92% independent. The rest seem to be proxied anonymously to other search engines.
>the browser frequently sends telemetry to their servers
Really?[2][3][4][5]
>they have consistently added more spyware to the browser unless users en masse call them out, which only happens some of the time
The only 2 controversies I found (including on Wikipedia) were the Tom Scott one and the affiliate link one, that were both fixed promptly. Not sure what unfixed issues you're referring to, or why you think Brave has incentives to screw the user the way Facebook/Chrome do.
Brave certainly seems to have a PR problem (at least on HN) but I'm not sure it's the pro-Brave people who are dubious. By the way, this:
> I don't think for a second you are being downvoted by real hacker news users.
Is explicitly against HN rules.
People here seem mostly anti-Brave because "crypto = bad" while missing the point that BAT isn't a speculative token but an attempt to realign online advertising incentives.
And again, I'm pro-online tracking, so not exactly pro-Brave by default.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457636
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/a8d34y/youtu...
[2]: https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/
[3]: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
[4]: https://brave.com/privacy-preserving-product-analytics-p3a/
[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552530
The syntax makes me wonder if the implementation is related to their high-performance filter rule evaluation library, adblock-rust [0].
[0] https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
you can search pretty much all of HN here.
https://hn.algolia.com/