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Brave seems to push the line as to what is acceptable ways to monetize the browser. Every time they will just call it a mistake and "fix" it, but why do they keep trying to push the limit? They had the "safe" ads replacing websites ads. They had the "shadow accounts" wrt the tip thing. Now they're trying to sneak in referral codes. How many "oopsies" do you get in good faith?

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https://twitter.com/brendaneich/status/1269512276605759489?s... Et seq. Stop repeating falsehoods.

Well that's not my twitter (nice dox attempt) but since that poster didn't know the history and is here on HN, I've got some links wrt ad replacement [1] and the shadow accounts + tipping where you don't know you aren't even notified you received money until you break a certain threshold and if you don't claim it within a certain amount of time it gets "recycled" back into the growth pool [2] conversation.

I did mention that Brave "fixes" these issues when the public inevitably freaks out, but it's still worth noting the pattern of intent.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/mozil...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

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