May I ask why you think so?

I uninstalled brave as the story about injection affiliate links broke: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31088549.

Sorry I don't really understand your comment (English isn't my native language).

So there was / is a legitimate data structure which stores these affiliate links and someone accidentally used it as a source for the url auto completion?

I assume the legitimate reason to store affiliate links, are things like the widgets on the "new tab" page?

If that really was an honest mistake I'm sorry for spreading stories like this, without checking them first in more detail.

Brave published a blog post regarding this feature/news; you can read more (as well as see images of the feature in action) at https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/. I hope this helps!

oh now i get it, thanks :)