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June 07, 2020, 12:59:20 PM
Last edit: June 11, 2020, 01:23:49 PM by notblox1
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 #1

Lot's of people are using Brave browser now, and thinking it is privacy based browser.
It is fork of Chrome browser, and people noticed that browser owners have been using their own affiliate links to earn.
They also delete all traces and talks about it on intenret.
It is all posted and explained on this link:
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/

Also posted on Twitter by cryptonator1337
https://twitter.com/cryptonator1337/status/1269201480105578496

This is not good for Brave,
but they announced they will fix this in github:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/10129

EDIT:
Switch to Braver browser,
community made fork of brave:
github
https://github.com/braver-browser
twitter
https://twitter.com/BraverBrowser
discord:
https://discord.gg/XMAyYA4

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June 07, 2020, 01:31:54 PM
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This is really bad for users who using Brave browser, maybe this problems started from here Brave and Binance Partner to Bring Crypto Trading Directly Into the Browser.

Also on 1 years ago, brave browser is not really "private/anonymous" browser when they ask KYC to verify the wallet for BAT Tokens Brave, the so called "privacy" browser now requires KYC!

I would suggest to use Tor or Mozilla Firefox if you aware about your privacy


Anyway this thread has been discussed before New stupid/greedy move from Brave Browser
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June 07, 2020, 04:34:32 PM
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I have friends holding BAT with high expectation. Brave browser hijacking links and affiliate codes are not good for BAT Holders.
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June 07, 2020, 05:25:34 PM
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Now I am hesitant to say that the brave are worthy of use because so far I have found what should not be done as an application that protects privacy, correcting mistakes does not mean they deserve to be accepted back into the community.

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June 07, 2020, 07:26:04 PM
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That was dumb. I noticed in the replies that there is someone forking Brave to remove all the BAT stuff along with their adware: https://github.com/braver-browser

If you like Brave's browser but dislike their bs, that could be an interesting project to follow.

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June 07, 2020, 08:06:59 PM
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I still use this browser because it provides an excellent shield and the interface is beautiful but I started not to trust a long time ago, I did not expect them to come to this bad level of trying to achieve profits.

I noticed the eToro affiliate, I thought it was paid and it wouldn't go beyond the main screen...

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June 07, 2020, 09:09:45 PM
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Damnit brave, why would you do that ?
I've just tried it on my phone and a search for binance does redirect to the official site without a ref link.
They must have fixed it, or it may not affect all the countries the same.

Anyway, it is disappointing, but not yet big enough to make me change back to safari or chrome.
I like the fact that it is fast, and that most adds are blocked by default.


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June 07, 2020, 09:33:17 PM
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What a way to destroy your project for a few bucks...
Greed at its highest level  Embarrassed Things will never be the same for them. At least not from me. Imagine the whole team of brave project including the advisors sat down and thought hijacking links and adding their affiliate code was the best thing to do  Huh

If they can do such a silly thing for a few bucks. Imagine what else they can do to sell off user data for more bucks.


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June 08, 2020, 12:37:41 PM
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...I've just tried it on my phone and a search for binance does redirect to the official site without a ref link.
They must have fixed it, or it may not affect all the countries the same...

For sure in my EU country ref links are not working in the Brave browser also, I have just checked with the same Binance ref link and it redirects me to the main page.

I learned about this thanks to this thread and just can't believe it. I think Brave is the first browser I know which doesn't allow ref links?

Insane in my opinion because today almost everybody uses ref links and I am sure that nobody is happy with this news, even if not involved in any affiliate marketing.

Additionally, it is kept secret, as we can see and the Brave team tries to do what possible, to stop the word from spreading, and this will bring more bad advertising and FUD on them.

WTF Brave, no ref links, really???

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June 08, 2020, 12:56:39 PM
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What a way to destroy your project for a few bucks...

It won't destroy Brave, people are using it because they want to earn pennies, so they'll be very unlikely to care about controversies like this as long as they keep getting paid. Brave might fail in the long run if their business model will prove to be unsuccessful, but at this point barely anyone considers it a privacy-oriented browser, as this is not the first time that Brave pulls some shady stuff.

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It won't destroy Brave, people are using it because they want to earn pennies, so they'll be very unlikely to care about controversies like this as long as they keep getting paid.

You are assuming that Brave user base is only made of people who want a few tokens. You are wrong.
I was using it because of its in built adblocker and because I was already used with Chromium.
One of the first things I've switched off was the token advertising part.
Maybe I was rather new there, but I am sure that others had similar reasons.

Of course, I am going for Firefox now.

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June 08, 2020, 01:14:53 PM
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You are assuming that Brave user base is only made of people who want a few tokens.

And that's probably the reason the majority is using brave.
There is no other sane reason to use brave instead of e.g. firefox.



I was using it because of its in built adblocker

You chose a browser based on an ability which every other browser has an addon for ?
Does brave also block every javascript until you allow it? There are addons for that as well.

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June 08, 2020, 01:28:54 PM
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Of course, I am going for Firefox now.
We're the same, Firefox is good than other browsers.

Yeah, because Brave browser is chromium base and it should be the same when it comes to security features.

As far as I know that the developer behind on the Brave browser is also the former developer on Mozilla Firefox.
All browser is very crucial to use if you are caring about your privacy you should consider using a good adblocker. Because if you don't, it might your activity might be tracked by third-party advertising networks.

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June 08, 2020, 03:18:25 PM
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Oh crap, and I have been enjoying the ads spammed because of BAT.

Anything tends to start off "good", then greed and corruption come in later and f things up.

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June 08, 2020, 03:29:06 PM
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You are assuming that Brave user base is only made of people who want a few tokens.

And that's probably the reason the majority is using brave.
There is no other sane reason to use brave instead of e.g. firefox.

Being advertised even on this forum as a privacy oriented browser... allow me to disagree on this. (at least until this last straw / change)
I tend to believe that it's not only those pennies that were seen as attractive, especially after they started asking for KYC.
(However, now I don't see another alternative than Firefox.)

I was using it because of its in built adblocker

You chose a browser based on an ability which every other browser has an addon for ?
Does brave also block every javascript until you allow it? There are addons for that as well.

I've lost contact with Firefox long before ad blockers were made for Firefox. And it was not the only thing I liked more on Chromium. Even now the rendering (from load up to the look and feel, even for the same fonts) is better on Chromium. And I also tend to believe that an in-built ad blocker should be better, smoother, faster. So yeah, surprisingly.

About javascript, yes it does: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/9j1rgw/block_scripts/e6onpx6/
And of course, you can make per-website settings too in both directions.

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June 08, 2020, 04:32:13 PM
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Brave has became a shit project/shit token in my eyes the day they implemented mandatory kyc. Stick to basic ad blocking, disabling javascript(no script extension on chrome and firefox), flash (flash block extension) and if you want to push it you can also disable Flash and HTML5 if you're that paranoid and you're basically using Brave features (probably better) minus the bullshit they do to users like kyc ref links etc..






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June 08, 2020, 04:46:56 PM
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This article shows tweets where the team claims that they have fixed the affiliate links and redirecting issues.
https://www.publish0x.com/everything-cryptocurrency2/brave-browser-is-tracking-you-and-35089877-is-the-proof-upda-xjjodjn?a=joQeZJepZV&tid=htacc

But the author also stated that Brave has some sort of whitelist that allows certain websites to place tracking cookies on a users device. They were not transparent about that either. Does anyone have more information about this incident?

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As if it wasn't bad enough that they were exposed for having a "whitelist" of websites that are allowed to track you that was originally undisclosed, now they have stepped up their game even more by not always bringing you to the website address you typed in.
Source: Already posted, jeez.  Roll Eyes

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June 08, 2020, 06:32:00 PM
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This article shows tweets where the team claims that they have fixed the affiliate links and redirecting issues.
https://www.publish0x.com/everything-cryptocurrency2/brave-browser-is-tracking-you-and-35089877-is-the-proof-upda-xjjodjn?a=joQeZJepZV&tid=htacc

But the author also stated that Brave has some sort of whitelist that allows certain websites to place tracking cookies on a users device. They were not transparent about that either. Does anyone have more information about this incident?

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As if it wasn't bad enough that they were exposed for having a "whitelist" of websites that are allowed to track you that was originally undisclosed, now they have stepped up their game even more by not always bringing you to the website address you typed in.
Source: Already posted, jeez.  Roll Eyes

Is this going for a long time and they are now going to rectify it because they are caught, if they are not caught they will not disable, this is intentional not an error, it's strike one for Brave browser, now they know that they are being watched and people are going to watch more and examine their code more often, they have tasted money doing this, I'm sure they will try another but this time they will be more careful.

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June 08, 2020, 06:39:20 PM
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This article shows tweets where the team claims that they have fixed the affiliate links and redirecting issues.
https://www.publish0x.com/everything-cryptocurrency2/brave-browser-is-tracking-you-and-35089877-is-the-proof-upda-xjjodjn?a=joQeZJepZV&tid=htacc

But the author also stated that Brave has some sort of whitelist that allows certain websites to place tracking cookies on a users device. They were not transparent about that either.

They've lost the credibility and I tend to believe those "issues" were not added there by mistake. It was just one of the most visible of their actions (after the KYC though). So I'm not surprised they may have other surprises here and there...

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