minigubben's lemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
dietcokke@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 years ago

Brave Browser is hijacking links and inserting affiliate codes - Twitter

twitter.com

external-link
message-square
21
fedilink
70
external-link

Brave Browser is hijacking links and inserting affiliate codes - Twitter

twitter.com

dietcokke@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 years ago
message-square
21
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • deejay4am@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    37
    arrow-down
    19
    ·
    2 years 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 🤦‍♂️

    • MaxVerstappen@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      The browser’s original purpose was to market their shitcoin wasn’t it?

    • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Firefox ftw

    • Xylight (Photon dev)@lemmy.xylight.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      The thing that pushed me off of brave before joining this community was that the fonts were broken on NixOS lmao

  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years 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).

  • tajj@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    2 years ago

    Can’t believe they’re doing this AGAIN

    • KairuByte@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      24
      ·
      2 years ago

      This is a three year old post, friend.

      • sebinspace@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        16
        ·
        2 years ago

        Shits getting recommended like it happened today

        • KairuByte@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, it happens on “hot” when you get low enough, I’ve noticed.

          • LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            2 years ago

            deleted by creator

            • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              2 years ago

              Well, I’m here now too. 😂

  • satanmat@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    2 years ago

    I’d really like some additional sources on this. But yeah. Even a sample of one is not good

    • Cinner@lemmy.worldB
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      How about this one from 2020

      https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/

      • satanmat@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        Oh!!!

        First. Yes thank you.

        Second. Yeah eff them

    • Carlos Francisco 📑@feddit.cl
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      2 years ago

      Did you note that this is a 3 years old post m

      • satanmat@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 years ago

        No I had not. So thank you.

        I hate when shit gets recycled. Now the next question is— are they still doing this?

  • Schwim Dandy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 years ago

    This isn’t news. This has been Brave’s business model from the beginning.

    • Ilandar@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      2 years ago

      It’s a 3 year old post…

      • Schwim Dandy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        That would explain why Lemmy displayed it on the front page of my hot feed.

        • Ilandar@aussie.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          2 years ago

          It’s been happening a lot lately, nearly got me a few times.

  • Fat Tony@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    What are affiliatie codes?

    • HerbalGamer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      2 years ago

      Links that give them a little bit of money everytime someone clicks them basically

Privacy@lemmy.ml

privacy@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !privacy@lemmy.ml

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

  • Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
  • Don’t promote proprietary software
  • Try to keep things on topic
  • If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
  • Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
  • Be nice :)

Related communities

  • Lemmy.ml libre_culture
  • Lemmy.ml privatelife
  • Lemmy.ml DeGoogle
  • Lemmy.ca privacy

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1.33K users / day
  • 1.33K users / week
  • 3.01K users / month
  • 7.9K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 38.5K subscribers
  • 3.48K Posts
  • 85.9K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • k_o_t@lemmy.ml
  • tmpod@lemmy.pt
  • Yayannick@lemmy.ml
  • ranok@sopuli.xyz
  • BE: 0.19.7
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org