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No, no other browsers do this.
by askiiart 4y ago
No, no other browsers do this.
- schemescape 4y agoWell, Brave was caught inserting affiliate links and Google properties definitely nag me to switch to Chrome (for my own sake). But Edge has clearly gone too far here.
- NayamAmarshe 4y agoIt wasn't 'caught' with anything, as much as those spicy news articles would have you believe. It was a URL suggestion bug. It was supposed to be turned off by default, and suggest content instead of replacing it. The bug was fixed in a day after release, the PR is on GitHub. Brave is open source, unlike Chrome and Edge. Let's stop treating FOSS like the other spyware. This also happened when Brave was like 5 months old. The feature since then has been turned off by default and the affiliate thing was shut down a long ago.
- schemescape 4y agoI hope you're right. Maybe I read too much into Brendan Eich's comment at the time: > The autocomplete default was inspired by search query clientid attribution that all browsers do, but unlike keyword queries, a typed-in URL should go to the domain named, without any additions. Sorry for this mistake — we are clearly not perfect, but we correct course quickly. "Course correct" made it sounds like it was intentional, but that they backtracked due to negative feedback. I'll admit that I didn't research the issue any further.
- askiiart 4y agoAh, didn't hear about that fiasco. But I'd recommend switching to Firefox, as they're keeping manifest V2 support. Also, stuff gets synced in Firefox if you have a Firefox account, so it matches up with pretty much all of Chrome's major features.