[FirstLvR]

Hey brave, get ride of crypto stuff and you’ll get users back

You guy are actually building a good browser

[iteratethis]

I don't understand why this complaint survives, it seems a myth at this point.

Open a fresh install of Brave. No crypto things are happening. There's one button inviting you to enable it, which you can dismiss with 2 clicks. It will never ask again.

[jeroenhd]

Every time I disable a Brave Rewards setting, a new one seems to pop up. It's in the address bar, it's on the startup page, it's in the sidebar quick menu, it's in another section of the startup page, it's in the tab bar when I open the browser settings, the crypto stuff is everywhere.

I wish they'd auto hide all that crap for you after you click "not interested in cryptocurrency stuff".

[louthy]

It’s pretty simple to turn all that off. It’s bloat, for sure, but can be made invisible.

If they could just fix the back-button on Brave iOS so it doesn’t occasionally pick a completely different tab, I’ll be happy.

[JumpCrisscross]

> simple to turn all that off

Technically, in the browser, yes. Culturally, at the organization level, no.

[alisonatwork]

Just use Cromite. Brave already proved they can't be trusted.

[cunningfatalist]

May I ask why you think so?

[nilsherzig]

I uninstalled brave as the story about injection affiliate links broke: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...

[BrendanEich]

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31088549.

[nilsherzig]

Sorry I don't really understand your comment (English isn't my native language).

So there was / is a legitimate data structure which stores these affiliate links and someone accidentally used it as a source for the url auto completion?

I assume the legitimate reason to store affiliate links, are things like the widgets on the "new tab" page?

If that really was an honest mistake I'm sorry for spreading stories like this, without checking them first in more detail.

[jonathansampson]

Brave published a blog post regarding this feature/news; you can read more (as well as see images of the feature in action) at https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/. I hope this helps!