Re:What if people were paid for their data?
by Hello71 on Monday July 23, 2018 @05:12PM
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This is pretty similar to the Brave browser model, except that Brave sells your browser history instead of asking you about your information.
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Brave definitely does not sell your browsing history. In fact, they don't even have the ability to access it...
Re:What if people were paid for their data?
by Hello71 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @08:07AM
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> Brave definitely does not sell your browsing history
This might be true.
> In fact, they don't even have the ability to access it...
This is clearly false on the face of it. Obviously the browser has access to the browsing history.
Brave claims on https://brave.com/hc-privacy/ that "When Brave Ads launches later this year, all personal data and browsing history will remain on-device and will not be transmitted to Brave or anyone else.". This implies that they will use personal data and browsing history, but attempt to anonymize it in some unspecified manner before selling it. Of course, as Netflix can attest, this is much harder than it sounds, and I highly doubt that Brave is up to the task.