The fact that it's opt-out is pretty hostile, and it's not like they didn't know how it was going to be received; Brave browser made a [supposed 0] blunder when

The fact that it's opt-out is pretty hostile, and it's not like they didn't know how it was going to be received; Brave browser made a [supposed 0] blunder when they appended affiliate tags to popular sites[1] - pretty close to doing ads in autocomplete results, and it was received just as badly. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005729 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005729 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027