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Brave Privacy Browser 'Mistake' Added Affiliate Links to Crypto URLs

posted by martyb on Tuesday June 09 2020, @12:50AM   
from the how-did-THAT-get-in-there? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

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."

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Original Submission

• Re:This is the guy who invented Javascript... (Score: 3, Touché) by tangomargarine on Tuesday June 09 2020, @04:48PM

  by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday June 09 2020, @04:48PM (#1005247)

  The donation was years before, and why should anyone fucking care? He's a developer, not a social "scientist."

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  "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

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