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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @04:17AM (6 children)
They claimed to be privacy-oriented, but all the news about them seem just about the opposite.
Who fall for this shit?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @04:52AM (3 children)
People who don't follow tech news or dig much past a company's marketing materials.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @04:57AM (2 children)
Even they would have to question how they fund their operation if they have any common sense.
But then again, they may not know what a gargantuan operation it is to maintain a modern web browser.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @12:27PM (1 child)
>>But then again, they may not know what a gargantuan operation it is to maintain a modern web browser.
Tell that to the man who writes Pale Moon. The reality is that 99.9% of the labor on most modern web browsers is used in writing Code of Conduct, enforcing CoC, cleaning and maintaining separate bathrooms for the 97 CoC-recognized genders, and deciding what hare-brained SJW projects to fund with excessive money sitting in the bank. The actual writing of browser code takes one engineer 15 minutes per week, tops.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @08:57AM
Maintaining a browser is easy when most of what you do is cherry-pick the work of the upstream. Even then, there were constant reforks to try and keep up. Now that ship has sailed and the cracks are becoming crevasses. UXP is the last hope to try and come up with something, but even that is falling behind and failing as the code bases diverge even farther. Even Alex with Waterfox saw the writing on the wall years ago.
(Score: 2, Touché) by petecox on Tuesday June 09 2020, @05:38AM
The novelty in choosing Brave is its crypto-tokens. Opt-in to their 'approved' ads and you'll get some rewards. But it's chicken and egg; few websites I visit actually seemed to be donate aware so your tokens are worth not much.
But it's yet another Chrome clone and I'm Stockholmed enough to still prefer Firefox.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @10:39AM
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