[mcint]

pushcx undermines his case by mixing more and less legitimate reasons.

It's hard building a browser to be accepted widely.

Though Brave also does incredible research in security and privacy --- and actually deploys it to millions of clients.

The 5-8 settings toggles to turn off sponsored features are a small price.

Inserting their own referral codes into links was a bit far -- though with 1) explicit notification, and 2) a setting to disable it, I would find it perfectly unobjectionable.

Some of the complaints are legitimate, that brave team discusses quite clearly in GitHub issues how to bypass blocks, though in many cases this amounts to the same as bypassing paywall or registration blocks with extensions, something I presume is so standard among hn and lobsters readership alike, that its absence would be remarkable.

[BrendanEich]

No referral codes ever injected into links, which mean those blue or purple text things you click on pages. The bug affected typed-in binance.us and finance.com only, we made nothing off it, and we fixed it right away:

https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/

Anyway, thanks for your comment.

[BrendanEich]

* binance.com

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