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by Flimm 1151 days ago
If you turn on "the Web Discovery Project" in the Brave browser, then a fraction of the web addresses you visit will be sent to Brave, even if the web pages weren't from a Brave Search SERP.

Source: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-Wh...

> If you opt-in to the Web Discovery Project, your browser will process the following data on your device, and securely send it to Brave’s servers:

> - A fraction of the addresses (URLs) of the web pages visited in the Brave Browser, along with engagement metrics (how much time is spent on the page)

> - [...]

1 comments

> then a fraction of the web addresses you visit will be sent to Brave

I get that but if it's a new site, the number of people visiting will be extremely small if not non-existent. The possibilities that I see are

a) The new website is first noted on something like social media and you found it from there and then accessed it via Brave browser

b) You use Google search or Bing within Brave browser and you find the site (because it was submitted to Google or Bing)