Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At some point they were scummy enough to automatically add their referral codes to any Amazon link you see. Lots of people today still mindlessly recommend Brave, and that’s what’s wrong in general with the “but the UX is so nice” mentality.
At one point they were scummy enough to automatically add their referral codes to any Amazon link you see.
To be clear, that means Brave is ① invading their users’ privacy, and ② stealing money from web publishers.
The point of referral codes is to reward web publishers for referring users to a product. For Brave to replace that code with Brave’s own code is Brave taking the money that Amazon intended to give to the publisher.
Its almost like UX is one of the most important things for a user of any given program. 🥴
If you really dig into the whole ordeal it was a software error, not some malicious idea to steal links from creators.
How exactly does one accidentally insert affiliate data on links? At some point someone wrote that code, which is malicious in itself, even if the activation was accidentally.
It’s also strange that it happened twice, first with amazon links, then they started injecting affiliate data for crypto platforms instead.
It’s possible they had ads with referrals but accidentally modified all amazon links
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It starts to feel astroturfed at a certain point. The last week or so has been crazy.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I would bet my left nut they astroturf
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’re cryptocurrency scammers; do you expect them not to hustle?