They discover that the Brave browser adds referral links from Binance, Coinbase or Ledger

The Brave browser that seeks to offer users a great privacy and securityIt turns out that neither one nor the other. Currently the Brave browser is in the eye of the hurricane because it would be modifying the URLs entered. As they have discovered, when we enter the URL of Binance, Ledger, Trezor or Coinbase, it modifies them to add its own referral links.

Brendan Eich, Co-Founder and CEO of Brave, has acknowledged this 'mistake'. He has highlighted that the modification of URLs by affiliate links will soon be suppressed. Despite this, the credibility of the browser has been seriously damaged by this unethical action. The privacy and security that they had as their flag, in the end it has not been such.

Brave browser loads referral links without us knowing

Brave by default verbatim Binance.us in the address bar to add an affiliate code. We are a Binance affiliate, we refer users through the opt-in trading widget on the new tab page, but the autocomplete should not add any code.

Indicates Brendan Eich on Twitter

After the controversy, they have announced that they will delete this function that adds an affiliate link in a forced way. Eich also thanked the community for identifying the problem and reporting it. Eich assures that it is only a mistake, but there are many who have stopped trusting the browser and its 'promises'

The autocomplete default was inspired by the search query client attribution that all browsers do, but unlike keyword queries, a typed URL must go to the named domain, with no additions.

Sorry for this mistake, we are clearly not perfect, but we corrected the course quickly.

Brandan Eich on Twitter

Although the initial controversy has to do with the Binance affiliate, they have found more affiliate links. Whale Panda has highlighted that they are also using referrals from Coinbase and from hardware manufacturers such as Ledger and Trezor. Come on, the controversy is more than served.

Source: CT