The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
afaik brave has a feature that lets users upload their browsing data to brave for it to “improve its search engine”, maybe it’s that. in that case brave browser users are distributed scrapers.
The article lack details on how that scraping is done, and I think those details are crucial to evaluate how serious are the allegations.
afaik brave has a feature that lets users upload their browsing data to brave for it to “improve its search engine”, maybe it’s that. in that case brave browser users are distributed scrapers.