That's the bare minimum a browser is expected to do. Not touch my URLs.
- It was a URL auto-suggestion bug.
- It was fixed in a day after release.
- The PR is on GitHub, this isn't a closed source browser.
- The bug appeared when Brave was like a few months old.
- The URLs that were being overwritten were only a few crypto exchange websites that partnered with Brave. The affiliate URL was supposed to be a suggestion but the bug made it overwrite the URL.
- The affiliate program was shutdown right after the PR was merged.
- Nothing of that sort happened again.
- Even the CEO apologized for an issue that was blown way out of proportions.
I'm sure the outcry from folks who recognized this was happening did not have anything to do with the affiliate program being canned and this 'bug' being patched ASAP. It's quite an egregious thing for a browser to screw up. That kind of trust can't be bought back by saying "Nothing of that sort happened again", because now that statement is permanently "Nothing of that sort happened again...yet" because that trust is gone.
If this issue wasn't "blown way out of proportions", one can only theorize how how long this bug would have stayed. The way I see it, the CEO apologizing is basically an apology that they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
Brave is the only mainstream browser right now that is not serving ads in the address bar. So before anybody has a problem with a bug that was fixed a couple of years back, they should be talking about their favorite bug-free browser.
Even when they were redirecting to AMP pages, and hiding the prefix so you couldn't tell, it barely elicited a yawn.
But, yeah, I agree that you should use FF and not Brave.
Did you read the comments?