A Brave Browser, which is a product based on Chromium, has been caught by users injecting referral links when visiting certain websites. For example, a referral code is added to the link when visiting "binance.us", turning the original link into "binance.us/en?ref=35089877".
Similarly, the browser behaves this way when visiting other cryptocurrency-related sites. According to available data, a referral link is injected when going to resources like Coinbase, Trezor, and Ledger. This feature is enabled by default for all Brave users. It can be disabled by going to the corresponding menu brave://settings/appearance.
Brave developers do not hide the fact that the company earns through various affiliate programs. However, such a practice of automatically injecting referral links can negatively affect the browser's reputation, as users are not warned about this.
Brave co-founder Brendan Eich, commenting on this issue, wrote on his Twitter account that the browser should not inject any additions when visiting a user-specified URL. "Sorry for this mistake — we are clearly not perfect, but we will quickly adjust course," said Mr. Eich.
According to available data, the developers have already found a solution to the referral link injection issue. For this, the feature responsible for inserting links has been disabled by default, whereas previously it was activated for all Brave users.
Forrás: 3dnews.ru
