• Azzu@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You weren’t tracked, logged, or had your data exploited or anything. All that happened was Brave got an affiliate bonus.

    You seem to not know how affiliate links work. The products shopped are tracked & logged per user, and can be analyzed by the affiliate partner as to what their users were buying, i.e. data can be exploited.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know a lot, so maybe you know more than me. The tracking and logging is via cookies, right?

      The same cookies that brave automatically blocks?

      Again, maybe they do some tracking via some other method that I don’t know about; I’m not an expert. But it seems to me that Brave was essentially scamming those companies by using their referral codes but denying them any useful data. Great for brave, sucks for the companies, shouldn’t matter to us.

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        1 year ago

        Not necessarily via cookies. The referral links can be unique to a specific user.