[jlkuester7]

I agree with the spirit of your comment (web browser != news feed). However, in this case I think the whole value-proposition of Brave Today is that it is not just another web site. Meaning that instead of needing to compile a sketchy privacy invasive cloud-profile on a user in order to surface relevant content, since Brave Today runs locally it can make the decision locally about what content is relevant to the user (based on the local browser data) without having to send anything to a centralized service.

> The Brave Today news reader ranks stories locally for the user from hundreds of popular RSS feeds using an algorithm that weighs several factors, including the user’s browser history and article published date.

Ideally, though, I would like to see this implemented as a browser extension or something like that that can be added/removed as desired.

[tobyjsullivan]

If this is actually the motivation - that Brave believes web sites are inherently bad because they cannot run locally - then Brave sounds like a web browser with a serious identity crises.

[jonathansampson]

It's not that web sites are inherently bad; it's that the browser is able to protect the user in ways websites cannot. Brave has local access to information about you; websites do not. Even if you were to give over all of your data to a website (why would you?), you now have to worry about that site sharing it, losing it, selling it, etc. With Brave, the data is on your device; cursory network scans confirm that it doesn't flow outward either (see https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-brow...). It's much better to do this as a feature locally than as a third-party service remotely.