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by cayley_graph 1050 days ago
https://github.com/brave/web-discovery-project/blob/main/mod...

I'm curious to see what you think about this. If you're not okay with Firefox telling Mozilla your IP address every time you connect, does the same go for Brave sending entire pages of your search results to them? This also includes which results you've clicked on.

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This is opt-in, and a rather hard-to-mistakenly-enable kind of opt-in that I personally think is consistent with their greatâ„¢ privacy by default stance

Brave offers a simple deal: if you believe or have audited their technical claims, you give them fully anonymized snippets of URLs and web pages, and they improve their search index for everyone