Equally as harmless. The affiliate codes don’t give anyone any information that they don’t already have (if you’re one of whatever tiny fraction of users edit their user agent strings, why the heck would you choose to accept the the URL suggestions‽ And if you really care about strict privacy, why would you use a Chromium-based browser in the first place, when invasive features have been discovered in Chromium’s codebase long after they were added before?). The sheer stupidity of the toxic FUD people spread about Brave makes me angry in its behalf (despite never using it beyond a test run myself).
Showing suggestions in the browser isn't "equally as awful" as injecting them into pages (or modifying links on pages, as was claimed). The intent here was for users of Brave [who also happen to have an interest in product/service x] to support the former with their traffic to the latter. This isn't unethical; it's an clean and privacy-respecting way of supporting an effort.
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jonathansampson|5 years ago