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A comment on Brave’s use of direct mailers. Parent comment

Re:Brave’s use of direct mailers by wzdd on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:05PM (#31626506)
Even if we accept that it's just about the names, it's a weird mea culpa. Obviously they knew the names, because they accidentally printed them. So what they're apologising for is making it so obvious that they knew the names, or, to put it another way, they're apologising for failing to provide the illusion of anonymity to people who were not anonymous at all.

For a privacy-focused browser, that is definitely odd.

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Re:Brave’s use of direct mailers by jonathansampson on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:27AM (#31628018)
Brave didn't do the printing; that is (and has been since 2020) handled by the EDDM vendor. Brave doesn't want any user data; we prefer that information to stay with the United States Postal Service, which has legitimate claim over such information.
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