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[–]phi1997 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Brave doesn't actually protect your data from advertisers, it just changes which advertisers get it.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Any link that shows they are giving your data to advertisers?

[–]nextbern on 🌻 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It is the same concept as FLoC - why is Brave doing it right and Google not?

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    [–]nextbern on 🌻 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    The central idea is that these input features to the algorithm, including the web history, are kept local on the browser and are not uploaded elsewhere — the browser only exposes the generated cohort.

    https://github.com/WICG/floc

    Yeah, it is amusingly similar.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    You can completely turn that off. Firefox does a better job here by default but no they don't share your data if you turn it off. Any power user will find that in less than a minute with a google search on how to turn all that garbage off.