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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/
Yes, that's what I was referring to. A very far cry from "just a big crypto scam".
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.