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• cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.

  What an absolute fuck-head

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• UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tl;dr Brave’s ceo (founder?) has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.

  Aight, found this. Apparently the twat donated 1000 dollars to some proposal in California that would ban gay marriage.

  Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.

  You know? Honestly, I don’t care about that. They’re free and open source. They have to make SOME money somehow. Referrals cost the seller rather than the customer. While this does count as an advertisement, it is still very low profile. So uk…I don’t really mind that.

  And it is apparently collecting money for YouTubers and not paying them (I did not fully read that article myself)

  I just found this page talking about this. It’s a forum, where a guy is asking “isn’t it pirating when we watch YouTube videos without ads due to Beaver’s ad blocker?”. Yea, so it’s more a question of adblockers hurting YouTubers rather than Brave doing well that.

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was reading another comment, apparently they were swapping their referral link in place of your own.

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    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      WAIT, WHAT?!!! That’s like cartoon level conning!

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      • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And I agree with you, if they were simply adding their referral link when you did not include one, nbd as long as that is going to support the free browser development. But if they were actually replacing your referral link with their own, that is some Mr. Burns shit for sure.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Didn’t they also click ads when you clicked a link, invisibly in the background?

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    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      that’s pretty much adnauseum except it doesn’t prentend

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• uis@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.

  How does it even work?

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  • cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Before displaying a page it searches the content and injects a referrer tag to the end of URLs that match certain things. This is done instantly.

    E.g. If there’s a Binance URL on the page it’ll add something like ?ref=bravebrowser

    Binance will pick up that tag and give them money for any sign ups. Brave do this for any crypto services they have affiliate accounts with.

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