Is there a reason this isn’t built into Brave? Lawsuits?
I don’t get the architecture behind the site. Why do the request need to come from this service? How are the paywalls actually being bypassed?
Edit: derp. Just read the now section. So if a copy of the cache is just being downloaded why couldn’t this type of thing all be done locally?
I replied this in another comment, but here is a look into an opensource version that you can compile. It will give you a good idea of how it works behind the scenes [1].