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Brave’s use of direct mailers
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#73Safari is the most private mainstream browser IMO. Private relay, third party tracking blockers, good enough support for 1Blocker to keep my laptop fan down. I use brave for work though since it’s closest to chrome and the dev tools are better. Their slightly annoying shenanigans every few months still seem better than Google having a high quality data stream directly from the browser itself
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#74What I don’t understand is how their vendor even got the names of the recipients. That is the violation of privacy, the mailed letters are only the symptom of a poorly designed system.
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#75Since the outside of all US mail is imaged and stored by the USPS and shared with other government agencies, [1] Brave just gave its user list to the US Government.
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/postal-service-photographs-every-pi...
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
As far as I know, the database is owned by the USPS, and they can't do their job _without_ that information. You can dislike Brave for buying access to the information, or dislike USPS for selling said information. But the information is already collected by USPS so they can do their job.
Even if the database contains banding by household income for example? Why does the USPS need that to do their job? Brave doesn’t show what targeting was used…
The US Census is public record and breaks down all kinds of demographic information by zip code. The USPS is almost certainly just using census data. Even if they didn't provide the convenience, a marketer could easily replicate what they currently do.
If you have a problem with the US Census Bureau collecting demographic data or making it public, those are certainly valid positions to hold. However, point your ire at the right target.
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#78Since the outside of all US mail is imaged and stored by the USPS and shared with other government agencies, [1] Brave just gave its user list to the US Government. [1] https://www.newsweek.com/postal-service-photographs-every-pi...
No it didn’t. Read the article. They sent this to entire zip codes. It’s not targeted at users. If you are a user and you also got it, that’s a coincidence. All your neighbors in the same zip code also got it whether they are users or not,
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Junk mail has a massive ecological footprint.
Junk mail is sequestered carbon that's been removed from the atmosphere.
Only if it's using recycled paper or wood from sustainably managed forest. Otherwise you're only moving the carbon around and not increasing the 'sequestered' carbon.
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He didn't donate to the wrong religion he donated to Prop 8 a proposal in California to ban same-sex marriage. Acting like same-sex marriage is a religion is bigoted and should not be tolerated here.
Prop 8 was the Mormons. I agree wrong religion is maybe confusing but that’s both who was behind it and why he donated.