[blacksmith_tb]

Hmm, I agree it's odd, but 'shady' seems to attribute malice to what could just be stupidity?

[d_theorist]

Or probably just an innocent oversight? I imagine they might have taken this decision early on when they were far too small for anybody to even think of not wanting to be crawled by them, and just never revisited the decision.

[skilled]

It’s not so innocent,

https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai...

[lern_too_spel]

Brave has a track record of malice driven by stupidity.