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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)

submitted 1 year ago by const_void@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] kadu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you really call it a conspiracy when they have a new privacy, user trust or otherwise shady issue every month?

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They really don't, not that I've seen anyway. Just stuff like this article that's 10% them doing something perfectly reasonable and 90% people going "they just feel shady!"

If you can show me actually shady stuff they've done, I'm happy to change my mind.

Usually when I ask this, it's something like "they do ads!" to which the obvious reply is "yeah they tell you that upfront".

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They quite literally inserted affiliate codes in the URL of products while you browsed.