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by morjom 665 days ago
Fair points. Ill try to educate myself on this more.

FWIW the about section says this: "Each privacy test examines whether the browser, on default settings, protects against a specific kind of data leak."

The maintainer is a Brave employee and this is a project they were already doing before joining Brave. I'm hoping that they aren't manipulating it in favor of Brave.

I sent those three options as a feature request. Do you think the site is still useful in some capacity?

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As for fingerprinting, there are more APIs that leak data allowing fingerprinting, what I mentioned were the most known APIs. Also, I looked at Brave Github and they seem to have counter-measures for some of those APIs to randomize results. So adding more tests could also be benefitial to Brave.

> Do you think the site is still useful in some capacity?

Well, it is better than nothing although it would be better if there were more tests regarding fingerprinting.