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Brave privacy browser 'mistake' added affiliate links to crypto URLs:
Brave, the open-source Chromium-based browser that promises elevated privacy, has been called out by users for potentially putting revenue over user trust. The company has been redirecting certain crypto company URLs typed in search bars to affiliate links and presumably taking a commission, Decrypt has reported. For instance, he typed in "binance.us" and the company replaced the term with "binance.us/en?ref=35089877," according to Twitter user Cryptonator.
[...] Some Brave users on Twitter (many from the crypto community) weren't mollified, but Eich offered a mea culpa. "Sorry for this mistake — we are clearly not perfect, but we correct course quickly. We will never revise typed in domains again, I promise."
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @03:17AM (2 children)
And didn't have the balls to declare his large enough to have to report donations to anti-gay marriage campaigns during the California proposition on it until it got brought up after his election as president or ceo or whatever of Mozilla. (For the record, Mozilla should have vetted him for controversies like that BEFORE elevating him to the position, given their 'ultra liberal' attitude they should have understood the potential for disharmony if he was elected and simply not offered him the position, and he should have been more than aware of the ramifications of his political contributions given that he could have financed them at a level BELOW reporting standards, which would have kept his opinions on the matter private. Personally though, I think ousting him was deserved just because of his part in Javascript, which has been the biggest disaster in the history of the free web outside of DRM and soon to be GPU DRM from Vulkan/WebGPU.)
Point being he's a wealthy self important asshole who was NEVER going to look out for his user's privacy. I don't blame him for that, but I do blame the rest of you schmucks for ever thinking he was, and not simply forking Firefox back when there was a chance of taking it in the right direction.
(Score: 5, Informative) by khallow on Tuesday June 09 2020, @05:14AM
For the record, it's not Mozilla's business. Such a "vetting" would still be illegal under California law which applied to both Mozilla's hiring and firing processes. Eich doesn't have to be "aware" of anything.
(Score: 3, Touché) by tangomargarine on Tuesday June 09 2020, @04:48PM
The donation was years before, and why should anyone fucking care? He's a developer, not a social "scientist."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"