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We are in Brave's search results! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by spez@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I think as the community grows, more search engines will start including us!

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 60 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Tl;dr Brave’s ceo (founder?) has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.

Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.

And it is apparently collecting money for YouTubers and not paying them (I did not fully read that article myself)

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.

What an absolute fuck-head

[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.

How does it even work?

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Before displaying a page it searches the content and injects a referrer tag to the end of URLs that match certain things. This is done instantly.

E.g. If there's a Binance URL on the page it'll add something like ?ref=bravebrowser

Binance will pick up that tag and give them money for any sign ups. Brave do this for any crypto services they have affiliate accounts with.

[–] Delusion6903@discuss.online 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The gay marriage thing is not a good look now, but it's worth noting that he's not trying to abolish it today.

And the referral link things is also old and it was walked back after it was discovered.

Choose your tools based on your needs because everyone will have some politics you don't like.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He may not be trying to abolish it, but he also, to my knowledge has not apologized, or done anything to show he has changed.

[–] Delusion6903@discuss.online 2 points 9 months ago

As far as I know, you are correct. My main browser is Librewolf and search engine is DDG. But I still use Brave when I rarely need a chromium browser or alternate search engine and he gains nothing from that.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Tl;dr Brave’s ceo (founder?) has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.

Aight, found this. Apparently the twat donated 1000 dollars to some proposal in California that would ban gay marriage.

Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.

You know? Honestly, I don't care about that. They're free and open source. They have to make SOME money somehow. Referrals cost the seller rather than the customer. While this does count as an advertisement, it is still very low profile. So uk....I don't really mind that.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was reading another comment, apparently they were swapping their referral link in place of your own.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

WAIT, WHAT?!!! That's like cartoon level conning!

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

And I agree with you, if they were simply adding their referral link when you did not include one, nbd as long as that is going to support the free browser development. But if they were actually replacing your referral link with their own, that is some Mr. Burns shit for sure.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Didn't they also click ads when you clicked a link, invisibly in the background?

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

that's pretty much adnauseum except it doesn't prentend