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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by afiori on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:11AM (#23748027)
> but when I go to about:studies, I see that I have never participated in any studies

Are you in the US? I also have not participated in any studies but in the preferences it is marked as active. My guess would be that they either run very few of them or are restricted to the US.

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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by kop316 on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:20AM (#23748163)
I am in the US. It was disabled by default in Debian, but it is on in Windows. It looks like I have not participate din any studies on the Windows machine.
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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by esperent on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:16AM (#23748797)
No, Vietnam.
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