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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] 201 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Looking into privacytests.org, the main developer behind it is someone who contributes to Brave source code. He may not be officially affiliated with the company, but it would be hard to ignore any sort of bias towards Brave.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

I've been seeing a lot of techy "privacy" blog posts, even here on Lemmy. It's a little annoying when they muddy up the waters like this. People new to privacy will come across them and head off in the wrong direction.

We need more comments calling them out and linking to proper resources. The site linked in this post even has a confusingly similar name to the actual recommended resource:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/

(And a quick sidenote: privacyguides is the same team from privacytools. There was a name change after the original owner for the domain came back and fought over the project. PrivacyTools is now a paid advertising site, and it is NOT recommended. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/privacytools/ )

Edit: while I'm at it, here's the official community on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Even Privacy Guides has its own set of controversy, where basically one group completely took over the community from its founder (who themselves wasn't squeaky clean, either).