This is not the first time @BrendanEich has vehemently apologized for violating users' trust, and shrugged it off to absent-mindedness. https://t.co/43Z3i4H3Xl

— Amy Castor (@ahcastor) June 6, 2020

All major browsers add search affiliate codes to keyword queries typed into address bars or equivalent UX. Try it in Firefox, Opera, or Safari and look for clientid in the resulting Google search URL that loads. In Chrome look for sourceid.

No one objects to this practice.

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— BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) June 7, 2020

Works for binance[.]com as well

— Cryptonator1337 (@cryptonator1337) June 6, 2020

A serious error in judgment needs explanation. Otherwise it looks like mouthing an apology. We will never revise typed in domains again, I promise.

— BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) June 6, 2020

Comments: (1) does not scale, valuable category but need dedicated security, build, update devops people. (2) Opera has been an inspiration to me for Brave, Vivaldi too; but we want hard privacy + opt-in max-to-user revshare. (3) contains the big four, can end in antitrust court.

— BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) June 8, 2020

It should be opt-in and it shouldn’t override other affiliate links (not sure if that was the case or not, but it sounds like it was). Probably should inject disclosure next to every link too.

— Paul Shapiro - SEO Edition (@fighto) June 7, 2020

We mistakenly matched fully-qualified URLs, but the intent here was to offer users a way to support the Brave project with no impact or cost to them, their data, or privacy. We didn't execute on this very well, however. So we're reverting for now. pic.twitter.com/10vGoYf0Cg

— Sampson (@BraveSampson) June 7, 2020

Brave, the crypto-friendly, privacy-first browser has been earning commissions by redirecting users to crypto companies via affiliate links. https://t.co/iA2gKVNDLM pic.twitter.com/ZjuLkX3Iwr

— Decrypt Media (@decryptmedia) June 6, 2020

So when you are using the @brave browser and type in "binance[.]us" you end up getting redirected to "binance[.]us/en?ref=35089877" - I see what you did there mates ?

— Cryptonator1337 (@cryptonator1337) June 6, 2020

Never understood why people were gung-ho about @brave. That’s pretty gross. https://t.co/v7oaUo5pOa

— Paul Shapiro - SEO Edition (@fighto) June 7, 2020

Happy to see that @brave already fixed it now 2 hours ago in their code!

"Fix for the affiliate ID fuckup"https://t.co/3xJaj7szoi pic.twitter.com/C5Py0U0BtT

— Cryptonator1337 (@cryptonator1337) June 7, 2020

Crazy to do something like this and think either that you won't get found out or that people won't get mad if they catch you.https://t.co/ZFOF1VuYAp

— Tim Copeland (@Timccopeland) June 7, 2020

I wouldn’t say that. Some of us missed the fully qualified domain name default-autocomplete without that default loading just what was typed. I’m here to say sorry, we won’t decorate a fqdn by default.

— BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) June 7, 2020

Brave browser (perennially touting privacy, security and ad-blocking) hijacked affiliate crypto links without disclosure.

(Quelle horreur, it has to be an honest mistake or a rogue engineer!) https://t.co/XLjxFXp4So

— Kontra (@counternotions) June 8, 2020

Brave Caught Revising URLs with Affiliate Links - https://t.co/RZZ6uODlGg pic.twitter.com/UOToyUAizp

— Paul Thurrott (@thurrott) June 8, 2020

This is mad: Brave, the privacy-first browser, has been automatically adding its referral code to any users who visited a number of crypto exchanges – even if they directly typed the URL into their address bar https://t.co/qEXBgmtXfO

— alex hern (@alexhern) June 8, 2020

Privacy browser Brave under fire for violating users’ trust (via @decryptmedia) https://t.co/Mq4L1XCdo3

— Bitcoin Dood (@BitcoinDood) June 8, 2020

"Brave browser is caught revising typed-in domains to companies like Binance with URLs including affiliate referral codes; Brave says it will stop the practice "https://t.co/EiNo5XPw8N

— Roger Chang (@jollyroger) June 8, 2020

Brave browser is caught revising typed-in domains to companies like Binance with URLs including affiliate referral codes; Brave says it will stop the practice (Robert Stevens/Decrypt) https://t.co/oxQbcRjrIs

— Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) June 8, 2020

The CEO of privacy browser Brave has apologised after admitting Brave redirected some searches to crypto affiliate links that pay Brave moneyhttps://t.co/NIf0E4hKdM

— Adrian Weckler (@adrianweckler) June 8, 2020

Privacy browser Brave under fire for violating users’ trust. https://t.co/Mr7Vuz1X5H

— Dave (@davewiner) June 8, 2020

Brave browser CEO apologizes for automatically adding affiliate links to cryptocurrency URLs https://t.co/sxBh8gXDDh pic.twitter.com/HD0w9G33yj

— The Verge (@verge) June 8, 2020