PrivacyEnglish · 1 year ago

The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

PrivacyEnglish · 1 year ago

I'm fairly certain that I was not the only person in the world who thought to himself, "Did they just yoink the entire Internet and bundle it together

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They literally had to be called out for link jacking and tried to deny it for awhile. They’re anything be open. They are giant pieces of shit.
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  So? Then Brave gets some extra money for something I was going to click on anyway. I don’t see the issue.

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