Well, they did mislead people on where that crypto went at one point, and at one point also hijacked Amazon referral links. The anti-brave sentiment isn't all anti-crypto zeal, imo.

The first mistake they fixed very quickly, and "mislead" is a bit strong – they were explicit in their terms about where the crypto was going.

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.

Oh, you're right about the autocomplete - which seems to have been restricted to binance and is being blown out of proportion in that context I think? - Still have to consider it and look at the UI, unwittingly using the auto complete could be a dark pattern, like YouTube making misclicks on ads very easy. I'm guessing atm that that wasn't the intention.

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