• fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At one point they were scummy enough to automatically add their referral codes to any Amazon link you see.

    To be clear, that means Brave is ① invading their users’ privacy, and ② stealing money from web publishers.

    The point of referral codes is to reward web publishers for referring users to a product. For Brave to replace that code with Brave’s own code is Brave taking the money that Amazon intended to give to the publisher.