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Can someone please explain why not to use Brave browser ? (privacytests.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://privacytests.org rate Brave as the best browser.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PrivacyTests actually started prior to him joining Brave. Brave contacted him, and used that resource as a kind of checklist, to try and improve their browser. Despite the guy now working there, it remains an independent project.

https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=ygvhCa9-0L4

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The project technically being independent does not mean it isn't biased towards one browser.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s still unfinished, but he’s working on a tool for you to test your own browser. You can do so here:

https://privacytests.org/me.html

It’s the exact same tests he runs, that are open source. Everything can be found, (if you don’t trust the guy) on his GitHub:

https://github.com/privacytests/privacytests.org/tree/master/scripts

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can have open source software with a bias towards something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can but:

There is no clear indication of bias, from PrivacyTests, just accusations.
If the tools and tests ARE open source (which they are), they can be checked for bias/cheating. Someone could also expand (fork) upon them to give more of a rounded opinion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A better defense against accusations of bias is a group or persons transparency.

Simply having an open source methodology and code base isn’t transparency either, since it takes a much, much deeper and more developed skill set to audit both software source code and testing methodology than it takes to raise an eyebrow at sus circumstances.