The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

Post by drannex » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 9:15 PM UTC

davidgerard wrote: post #6

phnofive wrote: post #5

> 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. No surprise there. > There is no good reason to use Brave. Use Chromium — the open-source core of Chrome — with the uBlock Origin ad blocker [...] or use Firefox with uBlock Origin — ‘cos it blocks more ads than the Chromium framework will let anything block. Is th…

Nope! I routinely run Firefox and Chromium, both with uBO on default settings - and Google results on Chromium always have three ad-link results inserted at the top, lazy late-loading via JavaScript. Google know what they're doing there.

Post by this_user » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

Post by meerita » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 9:17 PM UTC

Post by gnicholas » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 9:17 PM UTC

Post by sergiotapia » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 9:20 PM UTC

kick wrote: post #16

sergiotapia wrote: post #9

I'm going to have to switch browser AGAIN? Dammit. Is Opera safe or what shady shit have they done? I haven't used Opera since Opera back in 2006. God I miss the Presto engine and dragonfly. Can I go back to them or they doing shady stuff?

Opera is still proprietary, and, uh, also they got caught doing some stuff involving predatory short-term loans to the impoverished in African countries, not to mention their CEO was also involved in an entirely different Chinese conglomerate that was also involved with fraud and some lending thing. Oh yeah and if you haven't used it since 2006: Opera is Chromium now, and the company behind it got sold a time or two.