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When Brave was caught in December 2018 asking for donations on behalf of other people without telling them, Eich started alluding in Twitter replies to Plato, Hume and Nietzsche. This doesn’t go so well when he’s trying to convince people on Twitter of his bona fides, when they think he’s just scammed them. I have been told by multiple past subordinates of Eich’s how - in discussion of any matter whatsoever - he will not be swayed from any opinion that he feels he has reached through logic and reason, and will vehemently argue his correctness at length.

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Whatever the change is, it will at least apply for Binance - though Eich conspicuously didn’t mention the other sites, and there’s no update on GitHub as yet to the source code file I linked above. (Eich doesn’t say precisely what the totally fine thing Brave thought it was doing was, or what’s going to change here.) However, Eich is very sorry that Brave got caught - again - and something will be changed in some manner to stop this behaviour, or at least obscure it. (See my Amazon disclosure at the bottom-right of this post, for example.) Similar rules apply in the UK and the EU. In the US, the FTC has required full disclosure of affiliate marketing since 2009 - you have to put it right there on the page. This ignores the legally required disclosures for affiliate links - the disclosures that Brave also ignored for the eToro links in March. The landing page for Coinbase even says “Brave Software International invited you to try Coinbase!” īrendan Eich, the founder and CEO of Brave, assures us that putting his referrer links into URLs that users typed in, to try to get people to click through accidentally, is all completely upright and above-board. This is all in the file suggested_sites_provider_. Searches on “bitcoin”, “btc”, “ethereum”, “eth”, “litecoin”, “ltc” or “bnb” that lead to Binance also get a referrer attached. Sites that Brave attaches a referrer ID to include, ,, and trezor.io. The animation in tweet shows you what happens:

This was spotted by on Twitter earlier today. If you’re using Brave and try to go to the Binance crypto exchange, Brave hijacks the Binance link you typed in, and autofills with its own affiliate code. Just in March this year, Brave was caught running eToro affiliate marketing without the legally-required disclaimers - and Brave staff were caught deleting all mention of this from the /r/brave_browser subforum on Reddit.

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It also has its own cryptocurrency, the Basic Attention Token.Īs such, it’s a favourite with crypto people - or ones who don’t know how to install uBlock Origin, anyway. The Brave web browser sells itself on privacy, security and ad-blocking. It’s as if Brave is performance art put on by Mozilla’s advertising department.

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