If you were an intellectually honest person with an actual purpose that exceeds bashing Brave, you would give this some thought and realize that it is common industry practice and not a privacy issue. Firefox or Vivaldi automatically add (and don’t just offer by default, like Brave) static referrals whenever you perform a search in them. I don’t, I prefer the non-invasive referral instead.Īll major browsers are making use of referrals in relation to searches at least, by the way. You seem to hate it when Brave has non-invasive means of funding, perhaps you like selling out to Google (Mozilla) or selling user data better. Thanks to the referral being static (i.e., the same for all users) it also was never a privacy issue. If you did choose the referral, the sole difference to the normal link was that you helped Brave get vital funding from Binance. They didn’t “steal” links, you had the option not to choose the referral. Try again, Sponsored background images can be turned off easily and if you don’t, they make for fairly nice background images. Firefox has sponsored links on the home screen and occasionally also in the address bar, connecting to some shady proxy for reasons unknown: Not that I care, I am not even using Brave Rewards – why do you assume every Brave user makes use of this opt-in stuff? Anyway. You can’t donate BAT to people who are not registered content creators – so the answer is, if you can’t or don’t want to donate BAT, you get to keep it. They didnâ€™t even pass that onto content creators and website owners at one point.

>Mozilla’s long-term plan is to build its own revenue streams from subscription-based services and reduce its dependence on the Google search deal, which has historically accounted for between 75% and 95% of the organization’s entire yearly budget as far back as 2006 when the two companies began collaborating (with a hiatus between 20, when Mozilla signed a similar agreement with Yahoo). (developer of Firefox) receives almost its entire income from Google, the biggest ad company in the world:

Firefox is neither owned by, nor does its entire income come from, a single ad company.

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