> or an autocomplete tagging a referrer - that was patched out in less than 24 hours That functionality (which would modify some literal URLs typed in by users

> or an autocomplete tagging a referrer - that was patched out in less than 24 hours That functionality (which would modify some literal URLs typed in by users, not just make autocomplete suggestions!) was present in the source repository for roughly a month and a half until it was disabled by default, and remained present as an option for over a year after that. https://github.com/brave/brave-core/commits/master/components/omnibox/browser/suggested_sites_provider_data.cc https://github.com/brave/brave-core/commits/master/component... You may mean that it was modified less than 24 hours after users noticed it and raised an outcry, but that still doesn't exactly inspire confidence.