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Re: Brave’s use of direct mailers

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Not from companies I've never interacted with, no. I haven't done any of the extreme privacy things, but I do use a PO box for almost everything, and thus I really don't ever get anything addressed to my name sent to my actual residence.

Really? Because every time a new dentist office, grocery store, etc. opens up I get unsolicited mail from them to let me know they're now a thing in my neighborhood. Does it bother me? Not in the slightest. It's a community notice, and the Brave thing would only annoy me if it hit the levels that AOL CDs were at in the 90s.

I get plenty of things like this addressed to the current resident of my house.

None of them are addressed to me personally by name.

Re: Brave’s use of direct mailers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the foundations of privacy is that data sharing in any form should be opt-in , not opt-out.

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.

Google never shares user data when it sells ad spaces, and this is still viewed as something you need to give consent for.
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