That's the same Brave that replaced links with their own profit bringing ad links? Riight.

This never happened as far as I can tell.

It didn’t. They did append their affiliate id to type-ins for a single crypto exchange once. They quickly retracted and apologized.

That’s bad, but not nearly as bad as what the parent commenter described.

>They did append their affiliate id to type-ins for a single crypto exchange once

They didn't do this either. There was an omnibox site suggestion that included an affiliate id. Nothing got appended and people were able to see the affiliate id before hitting enter to visit the site. These site suggestions could also be disabled in the settings.

Thats nearly exactly what I said? - If you typed the domain into the address bar, and pressed enter (obviously) the affiliate id got appended. I'm not clear what distinction you're making here.

It's like saying that if I type news into the omnibar and hit enter the browser appends .ycombinator.com

That isn't really what is happening. It shows a preview for news.ycombinator.com and hitting enter confirms that option. The distinction is one is clear to the user and the other is a modification that happens behind the scenes.

I never implied it was hidden. I’m not sure why you’re arguing with me.

Brave collected crypto donations on behalf of unsuspecting online creators and pocketed them. As far as I'm concerned that's as bad as fraud.