dietcokke to Privacy · 5 years agoBrave Browser is hijacking links and inserting affiliate codes - Twittertwitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down115
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minus-squarek_o_tMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-25 years agoThey don’t exactly hijack, they simply autocomplete the website name with their own referral code, which is still pretty low play on their side i’m not really surprised… this just goes to show that the data mining/ad personalisation based revenue model eventually always turns malicious…
minus-squaredietcokkeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 years agoThat’s fair. I just copied the title from the hacker news post.
They don’t exactly hijack, they simply autocomplete the website name with their own referral code, which is still pretty low play on their side
i’m not really surprised…
this just goes to show that the data mining/ad personalisation based revenue model eventually always turns malicious…
That’s fair. I just copied the title from the hacker news post.