Brave admitted to autocompleting ‘’ with an affiliate code before redirecting users to the site. However, some publishers have noted that users of their site report that Brave offers a donation option even if the publisher has not signed up or been in contact with Brave these “donations” appear to go to Brave instead if the publisher does not sign up and collect them. This requires publishers to sign up with Brave in order to be able to receive these payments. When it was first announced in 2016, a number of commentators at popular tech magazines took issue with the fact that Brave blocks the ads that websites serve (and often rely on for revenue) in favor of its own system.īrave also has a system called Brave Rewards, which allows users of the privacy browser to opt-in to delivering their cryptocurrency micropayments to the sites they visit. However, this new fork is being led by the developer of nOS, a similar privacy browser that has its own similar BAT-equivalent attention token called the NOS. Forks going their own wayĪt least one group, which goes by the handle “BraverBrowser” on social media, is proposing a fork of the open-source project that strips out all presence of advertising and the BAT entirely. BAT is an Ethereum-based token and can be exchanged at a number of the sites that the privacy browser was auto-completing referral links to. Users get portions of Brave’s “Basic Attention Token” (BAT) for each ad they view. The ads are supposed to be display-only and not furnished with any user personal information. The privacy browser’s central revenue scheme is an opt-in advertising system that entices users with a little cryptocurrency if they allow select ads to be shown. We are a Binance affiliate, we refer users via the opt-in trading widget on the new tab page, but autocomplete should not add any code … Sorry for this mistake - we are clearly not perfect, but we correct course quickly.”Įich implied that the revenue was necessary for Brave to support itself. Eich stated in a series of Twitter posts that “We made a mistake, we’re correcting: Brave default autocompletes verbatim “” in address bar to add an affiliate code. However, he also defended the practice by stating that the affiliate referral scheme had been visible in the browser’s open-source code for months.
Eich apologized for the scheme once it was discovered by users, stated that it had been fixed, and vowed that the company would not do it again.
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