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Brave engineer here. > "Monopoly money for watching ads" What does Firefox pay you for piping your keystrokes off to Google? BAT is a reward for your attention; far better arrangem…

Not quite. We had a couple domains that—when typed into the address bar—would offer a referral-option in the browser UI. If you quickly hit the enter key, you might mistakenly have…

There's a lot of confusion around the "brave-reward holding garbage." To be brief, Brave issued grants to users, which those same users could then direct to their favorite content …

In fact, Brave was the first browser to block nasty crypto-jacking/mining scripts (e.g., CoinHive) when they began to appear on the scene, nearly a decade ago.

Sampson here, from Developer Relations at Brave. Would you mind telling me a bit more about how you have Brave configured, so that I can make sure local testing and troubleshooting…

I'm an engineer at Brave. Not quite. Not unless by "stupid stuff" you mean shipped-and-fixed a couple bugs here and there (including confusing UI/UX), etc. Brave operates in such a…

Brave published a blog post regarding this feature/news; you can read more (as well as see images of the feature in action) at https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/ …

Hello! I am Sampson, from Brave. Brave is an advertising company, but we’re quite different from Google and others in this space. Brave's ad notifications are opt-in and engineered…

I'm Sampson, from the Brave team. The Web Discovery Project is a clever approach. For Brave to compete with Google, and offer a truly novel index of the Web, a novel approach must …

That was my bad :( I forgot the "w-full" class on the Shields image. I set the "max-w-md" class alone, which sounds like it's supposed to prevent the image from being wider than th…

You can always check the internal task manager to see which tabs/extensions/child-processes are using the most resources. To do so, visit › More Tools › Task Manager in the browser…

In Brave, you can select the Bookmarks panel from the side bar, and then toggle it open/closed from then on with Ctrl+B. Regarding iOS, it's entirely possible there's a bug in our …

That's quite misleading; please see my response to a previous comment regarding the initial "payments" UI/UX: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32755143 .

There's some considerable context missing here. When Brave held its token sale in 2017, we allocated 300M tokens to the User Growth Pool. Shortly thereafter we began staking Brave …

The United States Postal Service handles mail for the United States. Them having my name and address is quite a bit different than Google having the same data (in addition to the m…

If any data is being collected and stored on servers, it would first need to be transferred off the installed client (the instance of Brave running on the user's device). Network a…

Data-harvesting would be quite difficult to hide given our source code is open to the public (i.e. https://code.brave.com and https://github.com/brave ), and that we encourage web-…

You've mischaracterized features of Brave. Our code is open-source, it's not difficult to literally "go to the source," ( https://code.brave.com and https://github.com/brave ) and …

This was not an example of data-sharing; the data in question (names and addresses) resides with the United States Postal Service. That data is never accessed or viewed by Brave.

You're absolutely right; no-addresses is the ideal, and what we would have preferred over no-names from the beginning. We have a call this week to investigate further why addresses…

The names and addresses are with the USPS. Brave (hello, I'm a team engineer) used the EDDM offering of the United States Postal Service. We were attracted to this method of advert…

Brave never has access to your information. We didn't use "a service that collects data about people," we used the EDDM offering of the United States Postal Service, which has legi…

No privacy impact. Brave doesn't have any names or addresses; those are with the United States Postal Service (never exposed to Brave). We asked that names NOT be printed on these …

We did communicate our desire to exclude names from mailers; you can see an example from last month at https://twitter.com/TravelTechGuy/status/1513965348177219588 . Because we wis…

Brave doesn't harvest or collect any user data; we explicitly requested that no names be printed on these mailers (which was the case prior to this recent batch). You're mistaken a…