[KingOfCoders]

Why can't they do their job without that information?

You can send a letter to an address without the USPS

a.) Having the address in their database

b.) Knowing who is living there

So Brave, the privacy company, is using a service that collects data about people.

[jonathansampson]

Brave never has access to your information. We didn't use "a service that collects data about people," we used the EDDM offering of the United States Postal Service, which has legitimate claim to names and addresses. This service is attractive in part because it exposes no data to Brave in the process.

[KingOfCoders]

"We don't use a service that collects data about people, we use a service (USPS) which collects data (names, addresses) about people".

Glad I switched back to Firefox quite some time ago, a company which thinks paying others to collect data about you is fine as long as they "don't have access".

If you pay Google for ads, you also don't have access to their data. Still they collect it, you pay them for using the data they've collected.

Google, USPS? I'm not a socialist, so I don't care if a state owned corporation or a privately owned one is paid to collect the data.

[jonathansampson]

The United States Postal Service handles mail for the United States. Them having my name and address is quite a bit different than Google having the same data (in addition to the mountains of other data-types Google tends to harvest).

Switching back to Firefox means your keystrokes are literally handed off to Google in real-time. Please take some time to review the privacy practices of your preferred browser: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

[KingOfCoders]

"Them having my name and address is quite a bit different than Google having the same data"

As stated above, they don't need that data. Instead of "me" think of your customers.

"Switching back to Firefox means your keystrokes are literally handed off to Google in real-time."

This is not about me, but about Brave.