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It didn’t. They did append their affiliate id to type-ins for a single crypto exchange once. They quickly retracted and apologized. That’s bad, but not nearly
by mthoms 3y ago
It didn’t. They did append their affiliate id to type-ins for a single crypto exchange once. They quickly retracted and apologized.
That’s bad, but not nearly as bad as what the parent commenter described.
- charcircuit 3y ago>They did append their affiliate id to type-ins for a single crypto exchange once They didn't do this either. There was an omnibox site suggestion that included an affiliate id. Nothing got appended and people were able to see the affiliate id before hitting enter to visit the site. These site suggestions could also be disabled in the settings.
- mthoms 3y agoThats nearly exactly what I said? - If you typed the domain into the address bar, and pressed enter (obviously) the affiliate id got appended. I'm not clear what distinction you're making here.
- charcircuit 3y agoIt's like saying that if I type news into the omnibar and hit enter the browser appends .ycombinator.com That isn't really what is happening. It shows a preview for news.ycombinator.com and hitting enter confirms that option. The distinction is one is clear to the user and the other is a modification that happens behind the scenes.
- mthoms 3y agoI never implied it was hidden. I’m not sure why you’re arguing with me.
- OrderlyTiamat 3y agoBrave collected crypto donations on behalf of unsuspecting online creators and pocketed them. As far as I'm concerned that's as bad as fraud.