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I think as the community grows, more search engines will start including us!

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[โ€“] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.

How does it even work?

[โ€“] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

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=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.