[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Brave Browser is still messing with affilia...
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Tell HN: Brave Browser is still messing with affiliate links
Previously they had been autofilling links and replacing affiliate
links with their code:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-
links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology They stopped doing that but I
found they appear to remove affiliate links altogether unless it
comes from them. Just to test I put NordVPN's affiliate link
structure and viola it gets removed: <a
href="https://go.nordvpn.net/aff_c">Test Affiliate Link</a>
Author : jimhi
Score : 39 points
Date : 2022-07-15 17:58 UTC (5 hours ago)
| ev1 wrote:
| Do you have any adblocking? /aff_c are almost universally blocked
| because they're 99% spam, on any domain
| gravitate wrote:
| I read a while back that Bitly the popular URL shortener replaced
| Amazon links with their own affiliate tag. After hearing this I
| ran my own URL shortener service. Seems Brave is replacing the
| affiliate code URL too. You could get around this by setting up
| your own URL shortener service.
| leros wrote:
| I'm surprised that's noy in violation of the affiliate and
| getting them kicked off the program.
| kbelder wrote:
| I'm always a little uncomfortable seeing accusations like that
| when there's just a sample size of one. It's worth raising the
| question, so we can check, but people always remember the
| accusation and not the exoneration.
|
| This should probably be communicated as "I'm seeing this
| behavior... can anybody else replicate it?"
|
| An "Ask HN", not a "Tell HN".
| t6jvcereio wrote:
| Stick to Firefox guys.
| [deleted]
| behnamoh wrote:
| I actually switched from FF to Brave. Much happier with it now.
| The only thing I miss from FF is PiP for videos, but that can
| be solved by an extension on Brave.
| prepend wrote:
| I switched from FireFox to Brave. The UX is just so much
| better. Launch is faster. Updates are faster (and smaller). And
| resource load is less.
|
| I also like being less entailed with Google and view Brave's
| chromium base a lesser evil than FireFox's funding dependency.
|
| For what it's worth, I don't care at all about this affiliate
| hijacking and think it's actually a benefit that more things
| should do as long as they don't break the experience (eg, screw
| up the rewrites).
| jraph wrote:
| > I also like being less entailed with Google and view
| Brave's chromium base a lesser evil than FireFox's funding
| dependency.
|
| Right. Instead of relying on funding coming from Google to
| develop the browser, Brave just uses Google's one directly,
| which in my opinion is quite equivalent to getting 100%
| funded by Google for developing the browser.
|
| I hope Firefox will be able to get its founding from other
| entities. Brave, however, is never getting rid of Google and
| its technical decisions without a rewrite from scratch and is
| just participating in Google's dominance on the Web.
|
| You may like Brave for its technical qualities, but we can't
| pretend it is better than Firefox wrt dependency on Google.
|
| Developing the browser skin is not the hard part, and it is
| also not the place where the Web desperately needs help. I
| wish there was a browser that could keep up with the current
| web and that is not mostly funded by a GAFAM (or a GA, at
| this point), and Brave isn't one.
| cuteboy19 wrote:
| > view Brave's chromium base a lesser evil than FireFox's
| funding dependency.
|
| This is very short-sighted. All chromium forks are an
| extension of Google Chrome.
| ZGDUwpqEWpUZ wrote:
| Chromium is the base. Google Chrome is one browser built on
| top of it, Brave is another.
| mp3geek wrote:
| I had no issues here. In Easylist we will remove many of the nord
| ad (image) spam. Which uBO and Brave uses.
|
| /Disclaimer Easylist Maintainer and Brave Webcompat
| hasperdi wrote:
| My thank you for maintaining Easylist
| propogandist wrote:
| did you check if it's saved in the cookie? I see on my machine
| visiting Nord via one of those terrible "VPN comparison"
| websites; affiliate links usually just drop a cookie.
| [deleted]
| FrenchDevRemote wrote:
| "They stopped doing that but I found they appear to remove
| affiliate links altogether unless it comes from them."
|
| isn't that the whole purpose of adblocking? :)
| hertzrat wrote:
| Removing affiliate codes is arguably a privacy feature. People
| don't especially like having so many sites know where they just
| came from. I know some people who rely on those affiliate codes
| for some of their income though
|
| Did they really replace the codes with their own for a while??
| gabrielsroka wrote:
| I'm running Brave for Android. I tested your link, and it works
| fine for me.
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