4 ms·

Brave Browser adds its own referral codes to some cryptocurrency sites (2020)

• LucidLynx 5y ago
  Old news, already discussed as stated @jsnell. Also, the founder of Brave discussed about this here: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269289242905042944 https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269289242905042944
• jsnell 5y ago
  (2020), And widely discussed at the time. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027
  • roenxi 5y ago
    I find it curious that a comment near the top of the chain said "Brave is really not solving any problem.". Brave is pretty transparent that they think the money going to Google (as a 3rd party) is a problem, and they think it should be split between the user and the web browser team. Makes sense to me, people creating the value can claim the revenue. I agree that me not getting paid is a problem.
  • cassianoleal 5y ago
    Thanks, edited the title to include the year.
• greo 5y ago
  Although this is annoying in the sense that they did this secretly and feels fishy, is this fundamentally worse than what google is doing ? Google sell user data to external companies but people are fine with it. I actually don't think this is a huge problem, to use their referral link for a price to use their product seems not so bad.
  • amelius 5y ago
    But from the viewpoint of those who pay for the referral, it is fraud. This is in fact very similar to click-fraud.
    • greo 5y ago
      yeah that's true, since those people were headed to the website anyway.
• Nginx487 5y ago
  Brave is well-know unethical crypto-enterprise, practicing totally scammer techniques, which seems twice as absurd given their fake "pro-privacy" image. For me, nothing could save their reputation anymore. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/nvz9tl/brave_is_not_private/ https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/nvz9tl/brav...