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flatline on March 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, ...

"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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