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Reading this thread: https://twitter.com/BraveSampson/status/1094713424452505601 https://twitter.com/BraveSampson/status/1094713424452505601 They're adding a h
by andrenotgiant 8y ago
Reading this thread: https://twitter.com/BraveSampson/status/1094713424452505601 https://twitter.com/BraveSampson/status/1094713424452505601
They're adding a header to identify Brave browser to sites they have partnerships with, like MarketWatch.com and Cheddar.com.
For example, if you add the header: `X-Brave-Partner: cheddar` to your headers in Chrome, and navigate to cheddar.com you get 3 free months of their paywalled content. (Who pays for a subscription to Cheddar.com?!)
If you think about it, you can start to see why they HAD to add a new Header and not just use a custom Brave UserAgent string.
They currently use Chrome's UA string, if they used a uniquely identifiable string, publishers who weren't on-board with Brave's ad network could start nagging users/trying to get around Brave's ad-switching technology.