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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @10:19AM
The modern Privacy (R)(TM) has just nothing to do with privacy. It can be seen in "Privacy policies" which have nothing in common with privacy. The same thing is with Mozilla: We respect Privacy (R)(TM) so we sell your history to Cloudflare, a service known from forcing users to run obfuscated code on sites, blocking access and actively fighting with anonymity (Tor). We also run telemetry to have enough anonymized data about you to deanonymize you successfully.
I think the Privacy (R)(TM) should be marked this way as I write it, as it is an artificial, marketing name having nothing common to the real meaning of the word. Or instead of (R) or (TM) just (🖕) for abbreviation?. This symbol is in Unicode for some reason.
By economics, it can be understood. Not many parties can nowadays develop a browser. Instead of a software to show rendered structural code (which can be implemented even with regexes, but will be slow), it became a huge, entangled runtime for "applications" which are eating CPU and "enhancements" which sells user data.
The objective of it seems to be to tightly couple data to "application" - a nonfree software which has its own purpose and spyware features added. This is no way how the Internet should work. The HTML was made to be readable both by humans, browsers and user's scripts. It is just fun to watch how these hypocrites remove blink tag as it causes eye strain, but introduce a whole framework to make webpage blink, spin, blur and move using more CPU than ever.