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Brave - Brave Search | Remote (Anywhere, but significant overlap with European timezones preferred)

Brave Search is looking for talent to make search.brave.com better. Your work will impact the future of search to be used by millions of people. Brave Search is an independent search engine with its own ranking, crawling and indexes, aiming to offer a true alternative to Microsoft and Google.

* Search Engineer https://brave.com/careers/?gh_jid=3274278

* Software Engineer (Backend) https://brave.com/careers/?gh_jid=3274276

* Software Engineer (Fullstack/Frontend) https://brave.com/careers/?gh_jid=3274277

For more roles at Brave, check out https://brave.com/careers/.

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Somewhat surprised there's nothing from Schumpeter. Many more popular thinkers drew inspiration from these two classics:

1. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

2. Theory of Economic Development

The chosen country is important. `uva` may be more commonly associated with the University of Virginia in the US. For Netherlands (same query) https://search.brave.com/search?q=uva&country=nl will correctly point to Universiteit van Amsterdam.

At present we default to country US. We're looking to implement better defaults soon.

We do hope you stick around!

Very cool :) Feature request: can the thickness be a function of the number of pages?

Check out the table here: https://ecnmst.gitlab.io/covid19

> When someone points out that someone did something bad, clarifying they only did it to 1% of one country's users isn't a super strong defense.

I don't see where I made this "clarification".

Let's be clear. Firefox was trying to test switching from Google to Cliqz (where it had a stake). Mozilla had a difficult time trying to break the golden cage they find themselves in. To their credit, they did try. Ultimately the Cliqz-Firefox integration was, unilaterally, cancelled. If your main source of revenue comes from your “competitor” you are slowly pushing yourself to irrelevance.

And also, the privacy issue again: I addressed a similar question in another comment in this thread [0]. If you want to spread FUD, please make a proper case.

[0] Another comment on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23045099

This statement is misleading. Firstly, for context here's the paragraph you ought to be referring to:

> This experiment also includes the data collection tool Cliqz uses to build its recommendation engine. Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit. Cliqz uses several techniques to attempt to remove sensitive information from this browsing data before it is sent from Firefox. Cliqz does not build browsing profiles for individual users and discards the user's IP address once the data is collected. Cliqz's code is available for public review and a description of these techniques can be found here.

This section is a horrible write up of what happened. Over the years, among a lot of other privacy tech (e.g. [0][1][2]), we developed a privacy-preserving data collection framework we call Human Web [3]. The gist of it is simple: Users contribute data. There's no way to link any two messages with one another making it impossible to build profiles out of the data. In fact, most of the URLs are dropped thanks to these strict checks. Mozilla, Princeton University and Red Pen Team have audited the approach. The code is open-sourced [4]. Feel free to audit it, and also please feel free to use it in your projects. If you are genuinely interested in the approach, please read [3] and let's discuss details.

Here's the bigger issue. We have created an unhealthy, and wrong narrative around privacy vs data collection. It's a false dichotomy. We also wrote at length about this here [5]. Data from people, is not the same as personal data. Record linkage here is key, and we prevent it - even at a network level [6].

If you are interested to read more about the Firefox Integration (and the context in which it happened), read this: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-11/the-pivot-that-excited-...

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[0] Adblocker (fastest there is): https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-20/not-all-adblockers-are-...

[1] Algorithmic anti-tracking (first and only): https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-19/blocking-tracking-witho...

[2] Anti-Phishing: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-21/anti-phishing-with-priv...

[3] Human Web: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-03/human-web-collecting-da...

[4]: Human Web Code: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-core/tree/master/module...

[5]: Is Data Collection Evil: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-02/is-data-collection-evil...

[6]: HPN: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-04/human-web-proxy-network...

> I also wonder what will happen to Ghostery, considering they were acquired by Cliqz :/

Ghostery will continue to operate normally.

> I guess I should've looked into them a bit more during the Firefox-Cliqz debacle.

There's a lot of FUD regarding this. We outline what happened here: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-11/the-pivot-that-excited-...

Here's a list of in-depth blog posts of the Cliqz journey and tech: https://www.0x65.dev/

The Cliqz browser implements the Dat protocol. Here's a writeup on the implementation: https://0x65.dev/blog/2020-03-02/implementing-the-dat-protoc...

Disclosure: I work at Cliqz.

The Cliqz browser implements the Dat protocol. Here's a writeup on the implementation: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2020-03-02/implementing-the-dat-pr...

Disclosure: I work at Cliqz.

Hey, I am working on Cliqz Search [0] and would be very thankful if you point me to quality issues. I use it daily myself (in English) and will make sure those issues are addressed.

[0] https://beta.cliqz.com/

Fundamentally, Google protects its search by owning all entry points to it (or paying massive fees for competition-prohibitive distribution deals.

The strategy can be seen at play with the Chrome browser, Android and its licensing model for hardware manufacturers, paying Firefox and Apple for placing search as default in their respective platforms. They know that once distribution barriers for search fall, their existence is threatened, explaining even moves like Google Fiber.

We wrote at length about this issue in our blog https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-22/google-competition-is-just-...

Hey, thanks for using Cliqz. We're working hard on improvements for each one of the things you mentioned (in that order as well) - so things will definitely get much smoother over the next couple of months.