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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by soco on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:44AM (#28927902)
I can imagine it was also a handy tool to DoS a site.
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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by vurpo on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:07AM (#28929671)
It was a tool to remove a site from your own results. If you searched and saw a site you didn't like, you could click to no longer get the results from that site. It wouldn't affect what anyone else saw anywhere.
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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by shp0ngle on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:07AM (#28928049)
That's a good point. I guess bad actors (exactly the same ones that publish those shit-sites) can abuse it to block the actual sites.
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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by skinkestek on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:01AM (#28928418)
Not a problem as long as it only affects the user themself?

My guess is some ux head exploded when they realized someone might blacklist a site they wanted. Or maybe the one who made it got promoted and no one stepped up to maintain it?

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