<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Privacy-focused browser Brave was found to autocomplete several websites and keywords in its address bar with an affiliate code. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shortly after a user <a href="https://twitter.com/cryptonator1337/status/1269201480105578496">published</a> his findings, Brave CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">addressed the incident</a> and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">called it “a mistake we’re correcting.” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eich said that while Brave is a Binance affiliate, the browser's autocompleting feature should not have added any new affiliate codes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The autocomplete default was inspired by search query clientid attribution that all browsers do, but unlike keyword queries, a typed-in URL should go to the domain named, without any additions,” Eich wrote in the thread. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Sorry for this mistake — we are clearly not perfect, but we correct course quickly,” he added.</span></p> <p>Brave's <a href="https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/1cac2377c9a2d5e35873d4d3d74130336b86d062/components/omnibox/browser/suggested_sites_provider_data.cc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Github repositories</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> show the browser also does the same thing for websites owned by Ledger, Trezor and Coinbase. Eich responded to this by saying Brave would remove all affiliate-code autocomplete defaults.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eich did not specify when an update would be released, and Brave didn’t immediately respond for comment.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The open-source web browser was launched in 2016 with the aim of protecting users' privacy by blocking ads and website trackers. In June, the firm announced that it has over <a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/67088/brave-browser-adds-1-5-million-monthly-actively-users-in-april-and-may">15 million</a> monthly active users, adding 1.5 million</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in April and May 2020.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In March, Brave <a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/59718/privacy-browser-brave-partners-with-binance-to-let-users-trade-cryptocurrencies-on-its-webpage">partnered</a> with crypto exchange Binance to enable users to trade cryptocurrencies on its new tab page. The partnership gave users the ability to trade cryptocurrencies, view their balance and get deposit addresses.</span></p>