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		bhaile on March 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, ... They did address it as an error on their part. [https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/06/09/brave-ceo-apolog...]

flatline on March 3, 2021 [–]

"An error in judgment". That's kind of like, I'm sorry we got caught. The fact they thought something this was a good idea at all is telling.

BrendanEich on March 3, 2021 | [–]

No, it was a bug, the refcode was supposed to go only on keywords (as all browsers do).

And contrary to upthread, we never "replaced links in web pages".

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