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>Brave never injected their own affiliate codes into anything. Coinbase, the founder of Monero, and other experts disagree. Firefox does not opt-in their user

>Brave never injected their own affiliate codes into anything. Coinbase, the founder of Monero, and other experts disagree. Firefox does not opt-in their users to inserting Firefox's own affiliate codes to coinbase, binance, or other crypto websites to get paid for traffic the way Brave did.

dubswithus 4y ago
When you say the founder of Monero do you mean the guy that was arrested recently for embezzlement?
- minsc_and_boo 4y ago
  @fluffypony was charged in South Africa but AFAIK he hasn't been convicted. Not sure how that's relevant unless you're going to try to poison the well with Coinbase too.
  - dubswithus 4y ago
    He admitted to it and said he tried to settle earlier and failed. But yeah, what’s your Coinbase source? Everyone at Coinbase? Because BAT is still listed on Coinbase.
    - minsc_and_boo 4y ago
      You still have explained how that's relevant. Read the sources cited in this comment thread.
jjcon 4y ago
The 'experts' you cite with names (one of which is a known fraudster) and without sources are wrong then? An off the cuff twitter comment is not an analysis, just false conjecture like you are participating in now. How is what Brave did any different than what firefox currently DOES?
- minsc_and_boo 4y ago
  Please address how Coinbase is wrong. Again, Firefox does not inject affiliate codes into URLs to get paid for referral traffic. I'm beginning to begin you have confirmation bias as a Brave apologist.
  - dubswithus 4y ago
    Link to Coinbase opinion?
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  - jjcon 4y ago
    >Please address how Coinbase is wrong. I can't address it if you refuse to provide a source to it (because it doesn't exist I suspect). You keep giving names with no sources even when you reply to a comment asking for such an analysis source. I'll state again... what Firefox is DOING is the same exact thing as Brave did. Now sure how else I can state that. It is right in the Firefox Suggest FAQs.
propogandist 4y ago
> Firefox does not opt-in their users to inserting Firefox's own affiliate codes they opt users into telemetry and “experiments” instead, and the entire business is almost entirely kept alive with funding from Google, despite claims to care about privacy. All significantly worse issues compared to adding affiliate links to a few sites. Affiliate links don’t pay for traffic, they pay for new user acquisition or sales. It’s no different than sponsored tabs / cards in Mozilla today.
- minsc_and_boo 4y ago
  Again, opting in telemetry tracking is not injecting your affiliate codes to get paid for traffic you send as a browser. It's fascinating the loops that people are going through (it doesn't exist, if does exist it's not that bad, poisoning the well, etc.) to apologize for this scummy behavior by Brave.

dubswithus 4y ago

When you say the founder of Monero do you mean the guy that was arrested recently for embezzlement?

minsc_and_boo 4y ago
@fluffypony was charged in South Africa but AFAIK he hasn't been convicted. Not sure how that's relevant unless you're going to try to poison the well with Coinbase too.
- dubswithus 4y ago
  He admitted to it and said he tried to settle earlier and failed. But yeah, what’s your Coinbase source? Everyone at Coinbase? Because BAT is still listed on Coinbase.
  - minsc_and_boo 4y ago
    You still have explained how that's relevant. Read the sources cited in this comment thread.

jjcon 4y ago

The 'experts' you cite with names (one of which is a known fraudster) and without sources are wrong then? An off the cuff twitter comment is not an analysis, just false conjecture like you are participating in now. How is what Brave did any different than what firefox currently DOES?

minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Please address how Coinbase is wrong. Again, Firefox does not inject affiliate codes into URLs to get paid for referral traffic. I'm beginning to begin you have confirmation bias as a Brave apologist.
- dubswithus 4y ago
  Link to Coinbase opinion?
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    [deleted]
- jjcon 4y ago
  >Please address how Coinbase is wrong. I can't address it if you refuse to provide a source to it (because it doesn't exist I suspect). You keep giving names with no sources even when you reply to a comment asking for such an analysis source. I'll state again... what Firefox is DOING is the same exact thing as Brave did. Now sure how else I can state that. It is right in the Firefox Suggest FAQs.

propogandist 4y ago

> Firefox does not opt-in their users to inserting Firefox's own affiliate codes they opt users into telemetry and “experiments” instead, and the entire business is almost entirely kept alive with funding from Google, despite claims to care about privacy. All significantly worse issues compared to adding affiliate links to a few sites. Affiliate links don’t pay for traffic, they pay for new user acquisition or sales. It’s no different than sponsored tabs / cards in Mozilla today.

minsc_and_boo 4y ago
Again, opting in telemetry tracking is not injecting your affiliate codes to get paid for traffic you send as a browser. It's fascinating the loops that people are going through (it doesn't exist, if does exist it's not that bad, poisoning the well, etc.) to apologize for this scummy behavior by Brave.