bit overblown. It's not all "links", they did the redirect for the autocomplete of "binance.us" and they are correcting it. https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201
It's not just "binance.us", it's common terms like "bitcoin", "btc", "ltc", "eth", etc. https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/components/o... Eich's tweet worsens things as it omits that fact. I see there is already a user submitted PR to remove this code: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/5759/files We'll see how that goes.
Wow... that looks to me like they're injecting their affiliate code to some URLs which the user would have to type in manually, like "binance.com", "coinbase.com/join", or "trezor.io/product/trezor-one-metallic". That's affiliate fraud -- Brave is not responsible for referring the user to those URLs, so it's inappropriate for them to claim credit for the referral. I'd be shocked if the parties involved didn't terminate Brave's affiliate account upon discovering this.
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?
Brave has to pay salaries - I suppose this is better than selling user data. Chrome is subsidized by search and Firefox gets money from Google. The revenue model for browsers is fucked up.
Countdown till some Chromium-based browser pops up with adblock enabled, but a $10/mo usage fee? (i jinxed it, didn't i)
> and they are correcting it. Only after getting caught. It's not like you can 'accidentally' write a bunch of code and push it out.
He says "We are a Binance affiliate, we refer users via the opt-in trading widget on the new tab page, but autocomplete should not add any code." Charitable interpretation: It is possible that he told the development team to add the affiliate code on the new tab page, and someone in the development team decided to add it to the autocomplete code as well, without him realising. I've certainly seen it happen when devel…
It was the co-founder & CTO that authored the commits, not a rouge engineer:
what the fuck, whats happening in the tech scene :( what should I use if I _dont_ want to be in the botnet or scammed and outside of google's mesh
I used Opera from 5 to 12, then Firefox till v37, and it's been Pale Moon ever since. Check out the latest release notes. I know I'm not the only one that likes things such as, >Removed more telemetry code >Removed the in-browser speech recognition engine and API >Removed support for the obsolete and unmaintained NVidia 3DVision stereoscopic interface. Palemoon is Firefox if it were still Firefox instead of feature-f…
I would love to be able to use Palemoon, but I just can't get over the fact that it's a single main developer trying to maintain an entire web browser.
That seems like a security nightmare waiting to happen. If I'm wrong about this, please let me know, I really like the idea.
Being a happy Firefox user and watching all the browser drama from the backyard. I still don't understand why people uses Chrome or Chrome variants claiming privacy things.
I'm quite happy with FF on desktops, but the mobile version is just ... overall a miserable experience compared to Brave. After using it for a while, going back to FF constantly makes me feel like useful QoL features are missing and I end up going back to Brave.
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?