Brave affiliate denies URL-bar rewriting in spat over 2020 crypto referral codes

gnukeith · x · 2026-09-11

Responding to accusations that Brave appended affiliate codes to typed URLs for Binance and other crypto brands in 2020, a Brave-affiliated engineer publicly denies it: "Either mislead or lying for engagement because we never rewrote anything in the URL bar."

The reply escalates the ongoing spat over the browser's past referral practices, contradicting the original critic's framing.

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