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They could have meant when Brave swapped affiliate links before the backlash had them backtrack. Which was a wild thing to do. Blocking ads in your browser whil

They could have meant when Brave swapped affiliate links before the backlash had them backtrack. Which was a wild thing to do. Blocking ads in your browser while charging to not show ads is also pretty wild. Why doesn’t their ad blocker block their ads?

hunterb123 4y ago
I doubt that. They said replace ads, not add affiliates, those are different words entirely. The "ad replacing" is a common lie. Just don't use Brave search, the separate product. Or you know, add the blocking rules yourself to the ad blocker, that works. Or you know, pay the $3 dollars to support the thing you use. Most of the people complaining here don't actually care about this. This is all just a proxy war to go against Eich for his beliefs. It happens every Brave thread, pretty transparent and pathetic.
- Semaphor 4y ago
  > This is all just a proxy war to go against Eich for his beliefs. Of course. Just like I war against your beliefs, whatever they may be. I war against all the beliefs.
soundnote 4y ago
They didn't replace affiliate links. They had a feature similar to Firefox Suggest or whatever's in Chrome/Edge nowadays I think. They had a deal with eg. Binance, and if you typed Binance in the address bar, their Binance promo would show up as one of the results. They had a bug in it where if you typed a valid URL (eg. binance.us) it'd still give the sponsored link as an autocomplete which it shouldn't have. That bug stood for one day, if memory serves, and the feature was turned off by default.
BrendanEich 4y ago
You're wrong on "refgate", see https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1360780527100338177 https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1360780527100338177. We do block our own search ads if Brave Shields is set to Aggressive mode, same as with other search engines and UGC social platforms. What else you got?
- skinnymuch 4y ago
  Oh wow. So much time had passed since that. I remember seeing the details after I had made the negative connection between Brave and “refgate”. Especially the HN thread at the time was chaotic. That negative connotation never left. Wish I could edit or delete my post. Sorry.

hunterb123 4y ago

I doubt that. They said replace ads, not add affiliates, those are different words entirely. The "ad replacing" is a common lie. Just don't use Brave search, the separate product. Or you know, add the blocking rules yourself to the ad blocker, that works. Or you know, pay the $3 dollars to support the thing you use. Most of the people complaining here don't actually care about this. This is all just a proxy war to go against Eich for his beliefs. It happens every Brave thread, pretty transparent and pathetic.

Semaphor 4y ago
> This is all just a proxy war to go against Eich for his beliefs. Of course. Just like I war against your beliefs, whatever they may be. I war against all the beliefs.

soundnote 4y ago

They didn't replace affiliate links. They had a feature similar to Firefox Suggest or whatever's in Chrome/Edge nowadays I think. They had a deal with eg. Binance, and if you typed Binance in the address bar, their Binance promo would show up as one of the results. They had a bug in it where if you typed a valid URL (eg. binance.us) it'd still give the sponsored link as an autocomplete which it shouldn't have. That bug stood for one day, if memory serves, and the feature was turned off by default.

BrendanEich 4y ago

You're wrong on "refgate", see https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1360780527100338177 https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1360780527100338177. We do block our own search ads if Brave Shields is set to Aggressive mode, same as with other search engines and UGC social platforms. What else you got?

skinnymuch 4y ago
Oh wow. So much time had passed since that. I remember seeing the details after I had made the negative connection between Brave and “refgate”. Especially the HN thread at the time was chaotic. That negative connotation never left. Wish I could edit or delete my post. Sorry.