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Brave doesn't ask you to trust it with more and more data; we explicitly do not want any of your data. This issue did not impact user data or privacy in any way

Brave doesn't ask you to trust it with more and more data; we explicitly do not want any of your data. This issue did not impact user data or privacy in any way either.

password4321 4y ago
It's nice of you to stop by HN when your keywords are hit so you can rebut each comment, but it will stand in the record as PR. Simply put, Brave takes calculated risks to expand its revenue/marketshare. I only hear about it when things go wrong. It must be worth it, because it keeps happening.
drusepth 4y ago
There are many facets to the Brave browser and the server-side Brave services it uses that would allow the Brave company to covertly collect all kinds of data from its users; Brave simply asks users to just trust that they don't want or aren't collecting that data. If one wouldn't trust a particular company with their data, I don't see why one would be any more likely to trust a company simply claiming they're not collecting said data. I do appreciate the few features designed to make it technically impossible for Brave to collect some/most of that feature's user data from, though.
- jonathansampson 4y ago
  Data-harvesting would be quite difficult to hide given our source code is open to the public (i.e. https://code.brave.com https://code.brave.com and https://github.com/brave https://github.com/brave), and that we encourage web-proxy evaluation of network activity (a la https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/ https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/). In fact, reputable researchers in the privacy space have reviewed Brave, finding it to be the "most private" browser, in a class of its own: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf. But does not collect user data--we don't want your data.

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Brave doesn't ask you to trust it with more and more data; we explicitly do not want any of your data. This issue did not impact user data or privacy in any way

by jonathansampson 4y ago

Brave doesn't ask you to trust it with more and more data; we explicitly do not want any of your data. This issue did not impact user data or privacy in any way either.

password4321 4y ago
It's nice of you to stop by HN when your keywords are hit so you can rebut each comment, but it will stand in the record as PR. Simply put, Brave takes calculated risks to expand its revenue/marketshare. I only hear about it when things go wrong. It must be worth it, because it keeps happening.
drusepth 4y ago
There are many facets to the Brave browser and the server-side Brave services it uses that would allow the Brave company to covertly collect all kinds of data from its users; Brave simply asks users to just trust that they don't want or aren't collecting that data. If one wouldn't trust a particular company with their data, I don't see why one would be any more likely to trust a company simply claiming they're not collecting said data. I do appreciate the few features designed to make it technically impossible for Brave to collect some/most of that feature's user data from, though.
- jonathansampson 4y ago
  Data-harvesting would be quite difficult to hide given our source code is open to the public (i.e. https://code.brave.com https://code.brave.com and https://github.com/brave https://github.com/brave), and that we encourage web-proxy evaluation of network activity (a la https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/ https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/). In fact, reputable researchers in the privacy space have reviewed Brave, finding it to be the "most private" browser, in a class of its own: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf. But does not collect user data--we don't want your data.