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Re:Brave Search beta by gundmc on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:57PM (#27596410)
This sounds like a dishonest way of bypassing payment for Google search API by impersonating a request from a user.
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Re:Brave Search beta by jonathansampson on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:06PM (#27599480)
It's still a request from the user; the user consents to issuing these requests on behalf of Brave Search when they opt-in to Fallback Mixing. Anybody can issue calls to Google's search engine.
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Re:Brave Search beta by freediver on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @01:56AM (#27601228)
Doesn't this get the user directly in violation of Google's TOS which prevents automated queries against it?
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Re:Brave Search beta by bagacrap on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:45AM (#27617283)
What do you think the Google custom search api is supposed to be used for if not serving searches that originated with some user?
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