spez@sh.itjust.works to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoWe are in Brave's search results!sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1468arrow-down156file-text
arrow-up1412arrow-down1imageWe are in Brave's search results!sh.itjust.worksspez@sh.itjust.works to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square77fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months ago Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls. How does it even work?
minus-squareCashewNut 🏴@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoBefore displaying a page it searches the content and injects a referrer tag to the end of URLs that match certain things. This is done instantly. E.g. If there’s a Binance URL on the page it’ll add something like ?ref=bravebrowser Binance will pick up that tag and give them money for any sign ups. Brave do this for any crypto services they have affiliate accounts with.
How does it even work?
Before displaying a page it searches the content and injects a referrer tag to the end of URLs that match certain things. This is done instantly.
E.g. If there’s a Binance URL on the page it’ll add something like
?ref=bravebrowserBinance will pick up that tag and give them money for any sign ups. Brave do this for any crypto services they have affiliate accounts with.