Yeah...

A Twitter user spotted the redirect when he typed “binance.us” into the Brave search bar, and the browser autocompleted it to “binance.us/en?ref=35089877.” Both URLs go to the same page, but the affiliate link at the end can be used to track users and generate income. Many websites use affiliate links, but most are transparent about doing so.

Brave co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich tweeted that the company had made a mistake and was correcting it. “Brave default autocompletes verbatim ‘http://binance.us’ in address bar to add an affiliate code. We are a Binance affiliate, we refer users via the opt-in trading widget on the new tab page, but autocomplete should not add any code.”

Overall they thought they could make a few bucks without anyone knowing and if your whole schtick is being transparent and security focused and shit.. trust between you and your user base should be paramount.

With all that said, it’s still better than Firefox.