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mesa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

www.windowscentral.com

mesa@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.
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    Wasn’t it revealed a while ago that Brave was just a big crypto scam?

    Revealed by who? Where? Brave definitely has some unsavoury connections to cryptocurrency but calling the entire project “just a big crypto scam” sounds like a massive exaggeration of the problem.

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      Brave was found to be injecting their affiliate links for crypto.

      https://blog.drhack.net/brave-browser-injecting-crypto-referrals/

      https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

      https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/brave-privacy-browser-caught-automatically-adding-affiliate-links-to-cryptocurrency-urls/

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        Yes, that’s what I was referring to. A very far cry from “just a big crypto scam”.

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          IDK why you waste time explaining these kind of things to these kind of people mate, I mean someone who define that as a “big crypto scam” doesn’t even know what’s a big crypto scam.

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