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Typically adblockers block ads and trackers, but Privacy Magic does much more than that: - Fingerprinting resistance: Privacy Magic hardens canvas, time zone, battery, audio, and m…

Hello HN! For a detailed list of protections provided by Privacy Magic, please see the README (along with the source code) at https://github.com/littletechllc/privacymagic-extensio…

That is very sad news. I knew Ralph at Brave. He had such a calm, kind presence.

Project Timestamper is an open-source effort to digitially timestamp real human works of art, movies, literature, and science as they exist today, before AI-created content begins …

I hadn't seen that post, but it's great! This project was largely inspired by my experience with Clojure, and my wanting to have a similar capability when writing JS code.

hakk is a new REPL-based tool for developing Node.js programs. hakk runs your .js source files, and updates your program as it runs whenever you make a change. Unlike the built-in …

Hi! Author of PrivacyTests.org here. Thank you very much for the comment. (I only just saw your reply.) PrivacyTests is very much a work in progress, and all feedback is much appre…

Total Cookie Protection partitions all cookie-like data ("state") between the websites you visit, not just cookies. For a technical discussion, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en…

Let's Encrypt is incredible. Thank you!

Hi -- I'm the maintainer of privacytests.org. To be clear, most of these tests were built before I applied to work for Brave. And I am committed to keeping the tests impartial. I d…

> Oh ok. That does make sense. Hopefully you read my comment as feedback and not super negative. It was helpful feedback. I value all critiques because they help me make the site b…

Hi -- thanks for the comments! > it would be very helpful if the table of test results were furnished with a glossary that: There is some explanation for each test -- to see these …

Thank you for the feedback! Granted, blocklists (lists of tracking domains or URL query parameters) can be circumvented by a determined attacker. Indeed, I agree that blocklists ar…

Agreed -- in the future I'm hoping to have a page showing results with browsers with various privacy-helpful extensions installed.

Thank you for the feedback -- I agree more context and explanation is needed for each of these tests. In the Blob case: the test code is storing a unique string in a Blob URL under…