This phenomenon early on was even targeted at simply cryptography based security (Although not super common on HN thankfully), since the word 'crypto' was associated with the software.

Ironically, it was born as a response to the crypto-crazed people that had the same thoughtless reaction in reverse

The issue persisted, as far as I know, one day. The response was to both fix the bug and make the feature be off by default.

Not sure the Amazon link thing is true at all. What I remember is that there was a Binance referral link that was built-in to the browser, which would show up at the top of auto-complete when you started typing "binance" in the URL bar.

I'd argue that the UI of the brave donation feature had been like that however, even if they made it so unintentionally.

> They added UI to the browser to claim users could pay individual site creators who'd signed up, but had scraped the names and photos of site creators who'd never heard of them. Brave planned to take the payments after they were unclaimed for 90 days. When caught, they claimed the funds were held "in escrow" but later admitted there were holding the funds themselves. Story broke here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999