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"Fewer than 0.5% of Brave users are using Strict fingerprinting protection mode, based on our privacy-preserving telemetry data." I think this is likely becaus
by quincepie 3y ago
"Fewer than 0.5% of Brave users are using Strict fingerprinting protection mode, based on our privacy-preserving telemetry data."
I think this is likely because people who go on their way to switch to using strict mode are more likely to disable the telemetry as well.
- bbertelsen 3y agoThe good old airplane damage diagram came to mind immediately!
- gia_ferrari 3y agoYou're referring to the visualization in this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
- bombcar 3y agoIt's so obviously hilarious that I'm surprised they don't call it out, or if they don't want to draw attention to it, moved it into multiple sentences. "0.5% of our tinfoil hat purchasers wear it, according to our wearing-telemetry."
- tgsovlerkhgsel 3y agoCan that telemetry be disabled at all? "Privacy-preserving telemetry" could mean that they consider it OK to make it mandatory.
- quincepie 3y agoYes, brave has 2 checkboxes in its settings page. One for crash reports and the other for privacy-preserving product analytics (P3A) which is what they are talking about here. Disabling those stops Brave from sending anything to brave endpoints, aside from auto update checks of course.