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It 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
by NayamAmarshe 4y ago
It 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.