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So when you are using the @brave browser and type in "binance[.]us" you end up getting redirected to "binance[.]us/en?ref=35089877" - I see what you did there mates 😂— Cryptonator1337 (@cryptonator1337) June 6, 2020
  • deejay4am@lemmy.world
    3819·
    1 year ago

    The amount of people I see on Lemmy saying “Ugh Google is so bad with all their Chrome shenanigans! I install Brave on my own and all my family’s computers!” is honestly heartbreaking 🤦‍♂️

  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
    111·
    1 year ago

    Between this and Chrome pushing their DRM bullshit to stop adblocking in Chromium based browsers, it’s a fine time to get everybody to switch to Firefox (which is a better browser anyways).

    • SirLotsaLocks
      4·
      5 years ago

      My exact reaction. This browser has been a weird sketchy deal from the beginning.

      • lakily
        4·
        5 years ago

        I would even consider Brave as a scam because of their token thingy.

        • k_o_tM
          2·
          5 years ago

          how does this make them a scam? do you mean like from a perspective of a libre cryptocurrency?

          • lakily
            2·
            5 years ago

            I don’t see BAT as a solution to advertising online. Also it has none of the properties to be money or cryptocurrency. Its a token on top of Ethereum (which is another case) that Brave controls. You may ask, users don’t buy it with money and only earn it how that makes it a scam? It has monetary value in the market, created out of thin (launched as an ICO) and the distribution is being done by Brave via their “anonymized tracking of users” it just feels wrong and not legit. Can users verify how much BAT Brave controls? Here is an interesting analysis about that: https://medium.com/glassnode-insights/an-on-chain-distribution-analysis-of-basic-attention-token-bat-4cc60fd0c48a

  • k_o_tM
    5·
    5 years ago

    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…

    • dietcokkeOP
      2·
      5 years ago

      That’s fair. I just copied the title from the hacker news post.

  • sseneca
    4·
    5 years ago

    I don’t understand why people ever chose Brave over Firefox

    • k_o_tM
      2·
      5 years ago

      Stuff like native IPFS support and support for hardware acceleration on Linux etc

    • SnowCode
      1·
      5 years ago

      I used Brave in the past to get a fast browsing and the chrome extensions as well. I got back to Firefox because my CPU don’t like Brave.

      Otherwise I don’t think it’s a bad software. They are growing and the link that is given is logical because Binance is the main sponsor of Brave.

      Some people complains about the BAT Tokens but these are opt-in.

      The thing I complained about was about the sponsored images when you open a new tab. Shouldn’t be opt-out according to me. And should be only linked to their BAT Tokens program.

      • AgreeableLandscape
        1·
        5 years ago

        I got back to Firefox because my CPU don’t like Brave.

        Can you elaborate? Genuinely curious.

        • SnowCode
          1·
          5 years ago

          I mean Brave is based on Chromium and Chromium is consuming a lot of CPU. Firefox is very lightweight compared to Chromium-based browsers. That’s the main reason I got back to Firefox.

          I haven’t used Firefox for a long time now and it seems actually pretty good. But maybe not as fast for some reasons.

  • AgreeableLandscape
    3·
    5 years ago

    If they had simply asked if they could do this (and actually respected the user’s decision, apparently that can’t be taken for granted), no one would have a problem with it.

    Not that solves Brave’s other problems though.

    • k_o_tM
      1·
      5 years ago

      and it’s especially weird that they didn’t opt for opt out option given that they know that a lot of people that use Brave are either privacy minded people or devs (or both) so they had to know that there would be a lot of backlash

      • SnowCode
        1·
        5 years ago

        What do you mean by opt-out option? Opt-out for what?

        • k_o_tM
          1·
          5 years ago

          basically to by default autocomplete urls with referral codes but allows users to turn it off if they wanted to

          • SnowCode
            1·
            5 years ago

            Oh OK I understand now. Yes it’s true, this is not very fair.