• Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Most of the stuff that happens on the backend of any software goes on “without your consent”.

      You clicked on a webpage.

      You were brought to that webpage.

      You weren’t tracked, logged, or had your data exploited or anything. All that happened was Brave got an affiliate bonus.

      Now if the companies in question were angry at Brave for doing that, I could understand. But why should we, the users, give a shit?

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        > You weren’t tracked, logged, or had your data exploited or anything. All that happened was Brave got an affiliate bonus.

        You seem to not know how affiliate links work. The products shopped are tracked & logged per user, and can be analyzed by the affiliate partner as to what their users were buying, i.e. data can be exploited.

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          I don’t know a lot, so maybe you know more than me. The tracking and logging is via cookies, right?

          The same cookies that brave automatically blocks?

          Again, maybe they do some tracking via some other method that I don’t know about; I’m not an expert. But it seems to me that Brave was essentially scamming those companies by using their referral codes but denying them any useful data. Great for brave, sucks for the companies, shouldn’t matter to us.

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            1 year ago

            Not necessarily via cookies. The referral links can be unique to a specific user.