suggesting sites for autocompletion of addresses, so the assumption of code error is somewhat mistaken and shows how the browser itself has never acted against the users or took advantage of their naivety. In addition, the Brave browser itself allows disabling this feature, i.e. They said the problem involved adding the affiliate link completion as the first option, rather than being shown as one of the options, so typing a URL should have shown both the referral link and the link without it. Essentially, any operation carried out by the user would have allowed the browser to receive a reward.īrave’s apology came a few days after the misdeed, with a tweet explaining what had happened. The dynamics of the events that led to this situation dates back to a few days ago when users realized that by typing some addresses related to the crypto and blockchain sector, such as Binance or Ledger, and pressing send, they were redirected to the relevant page with the referral link included. It all originated from something that apparently seemed harmless, a simple referral link, but which aroused the outrage of a good part of the community and the developers themselves.

The first test build of completed a few hours after its fork, removing Brave's referral link injection.Īll future ad integrations /TQjJ0uc0C9 A storm of problems for the Brave browser that had to deal with a fork that led to the birth of a new tool: Braver.

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