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BATgrowth / detect-bat-publishers

DEPRECATED: A npm package to detect Brave Browser / Basic Attention Token publishers
https://www.npmjs.com/package/detect-bat-publishers
MIT License
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Track Flattr for comparision #3

Open da2x opened 6 years ago

da2x commented 6 years ago

To expand https://batgrowth.com/publishers it can be useful to track a direct competitor; Flattr. Flattr is doing almost the same thing as Brave, except using a browser extension and real money. It would be useful to compare Flattr publisher adoption along side Brave adoption.

Detection method builds on method in issue #1.

Request http://example.com/ (and www-subdomain if bare domain doeesn’t yield expected results.) Do follow up to ten redirects. You may need to uncompress the result even if you didn’t request with Accept-Encoding because web server configurations are horribly broken.

Look for the string flattr:id in the result. (<meta name="flattr:id" content="example">) Assume domain is a Flattr verified publisher.

maxenceC commented 6 years ago

This is a cool idea, I'll try to add a tab for flattr if I have enough time !

da2x commented 6 years ago

There are currently 1800 websites (either two or three times the current number of Brave-verified websites) out there that accepts Flattr, according to PublicWWW.