[quincepie]

"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.

[bombcar]

It'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."

[bbertelsen]

The good old airplane damage diagram came to mind immediately!

[gia_ferrari]

You're referring to the visualization in this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

Can that telemetry be disabled at all? "Privacy-preserving telemetry" could mean that they consider it OK to make it mandatory.

[quincepie]

Yes, 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.