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A comment on Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users. Parent comment

Re:Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Dail... by Aaronstotle on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:02PM (#24974508)
There's nothing wrong with it, but it's a shady practice to do it automatically (no disclosure) on a Browser that claims to be a more privacy focused browser.
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Re:Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Dail... by ekianjo on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:26AM (#24976935)
What do affiliate links have to do with privacy?
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Re:Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Dail... by dagmx on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:44AM (#24977035)
From a technical perspective, many affiliate links are redirect based. So the end user may only see the initial site they clicked from and the final site they go to, but there is a redirect in the middle.

This can be used to track users across the web without their knowledge or consent.

However I don't know Brave's implementation here. Just answering the question in the abstract.

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