• AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@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. Lots of people today still mindlessly recommend Brave, and that’s what’s wrong in general with the “but the UX is so nice” mentality.

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      1 year ago

      Lots of people today still mindlessly recommend Brave

      It starts to feel astroturfed at a certain point. The last week or so has been crazy.

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      1 year ago

      Its almost like UX is one of the most important things for a user of any given program. 🥴

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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; leading to the user buying a product that they otherwise wouldn’t.

      Your browser isn’t introducing you to a product. For it to insert referral codes for the browser vendor’s benefit is stealing money.