(I was going to open this as a “content correction” issue on Issues · privacyguides/privacyguides.org · GitHub but the issue template made it sound like I should first post here, so here goes.) For Brave Search, this statement is inaccurate on the page Recommended Search Engines: Anonymous Alternat…

@shivan-brave Since it seems like you are part of the Brave team based on your Github you may want to let @staff know so you can be properly identified.

yep I’m happy to be identified as such, in the meantime I’ve updated my handle to include brave

awesome to see someone from Brave participating. If you have time maybe you can lend your thoughts to some of the other popular Brave topics going on [image] Brave Launches Paid, Bloat-Free "Brave Origin" rolled_up_newspaperNews Brave has announced a new minim…

I second that. @shivan-brave your input would be very insightful if you have time for us.

I created a PR to do this, if there’s no objection: Remove sentence about the user's Premium account being tied to use of Brave Search by ShivanKaul · Pull Request #3225 · privacyguides/privacyguides.org · GitHub

When was PrivacyPass implemented? More recently than the May2024 commit? At a surface level, this does seem to mitigate the concern, but I am admittedly unfamiliar with PrivacyPass & have not done a forensic audit It looks like @redoomed1 made the edit, with @jonah specifically requesting the lang…

@shivan-brave Why I can’t buy a Premium account with Crypto? I don’t feel comfortable paying for things with a credit card or other monitored apps.

Please don’t start asking random questions just because an employee from Brave started this thread. If you must start another topic and ask it there but I’m personally not the biggest fan of that since it usually snowballs into everyone and their grandma asking questions that have been solved and a…

I don’t know that the statement is inaccurate and potentially the risk itself is still present, even if one might perceive as minuscule. The statement reads: there is a risk of Brave correlating search queries with your [Premium] account*. whereas @shivan-brave statement was: [image] shivan…

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awesome to see someone from Brave participating. If you have time maybe you can lend your thoughts to some of the other popular Brave topics going on

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