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> The Brave Today news reader ranks stories locally for the user from hundreds of popular RSS feeds using an algorithm that weighs several factors, including the user’s browser history and article published date.

What "algorithm" you ask?

> We’re using Brave’s new private CDN to fetch RSS feeds anonymously via the browser and the browser’s personalization capabilities to rank the headlines for users with a simple algorithm that will make the experience interesting for everyone.

This seems like spying... with extra steps. In the meantime, Vivaldi added good old, classic RSS reader (and email client). To their experiments[1] (not affiliated).

Brave might be great, but it feels like Crypto AG[2] spinoff.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-mail-technical-preview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

parent lebaux 6 years ago

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