Brave Browser is hijacking links and inserting affiliate codes - Twitter
Brave Browser is hijacking links and inserting affiliate codes - Twitter
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 🤦♂️
35 6 ReplyFirefox ftw
4 1 ReplyThe browser's original purpose was to market their shitcoin wasn't it?
4 1 ReplyThe thing that pushed me off of brave before joining this community was that the fonts were broken on NixOS lmao
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Can't believe they're doing this AGAIN
12 2 ReplyThis is a three year old post, friend.
23 0 ReplyShits getting recommended like it happened today
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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).
9 1 ReplyI’d really like some additional sources on this. But yeah. Even a sample of one is not good
7 0 Reply9 0 ReplyOh!!!
First. Yes thank you.
Second. Yeah eff them
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Did you note that this is a 3 years old post m
7 0 ReplyNo I had not. So thank you.
I hate when shit gets recycled. Now the next question is— are they still doing this?
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This isn't news. This has been Brave's business model from the beginning.
2 0 ReplyIt's a 3 year old post...
2 0 ReplyThat would explain why Lemmy displayed it on the front page of my hot feed.
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What are affiliatie codes?
1 0 ReplyLinks that give them a little bit of money everytime someone clicks them basically
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