▲ 506 ▼ Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place (www.xda-developers.com) submitted 4 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 148 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (4 children) https://vivaldi.com/blog/what-is-direct-match/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (2 children) Ooh, thank you. I get they need to make money, but I hate this. It also won't seem to turn off for me, I disabled the setting for direct match, deleted all my cookies and such, deleted the browser cache, and it's still popping up and still redirecting through the affiliate link. Boo. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 child) Hmmm, that's weird, I didn't even realize this feature existed until I read your post. Guess I have always had it disabled, and I've never run into the issue. Have you also deleted the default bookmarks? The address bar will prefer bookmarks when you start typing an address, so if you don't delete the default ones that come with Vivaldi, they might be autocompleting? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago I did delete the bookmarks, yes. I'll have to keep playing with it and see if I can make it stop, but it does make me feel a little better knowing what it is. I just wish they were more open and transparent about it. Seeing my browser just randomly redirecting me through third party links with no warning is alarming and makes me want to go find another browser and I've gone through like 6 in the last 2 years trying to find one I like. permalink fedilink source parent [–] benny@reddthat.com 0 points 4 months ago* This seems to be disabled for me on mobile, but enabled on the desktop. Seems like a helpful feature, though they could've just done something like Firefox where it's an offline search for a website with the same starting letters. Still, appreciate the writeup and trying to minimize data collection while calling a 3rd party service in the browser and the option to disable it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (2 children) Ooh, thank you. I get they need to make money, but I hate this. It also won't seem to turn off for me, I disabled the setting for direct match, deleted all my cookies and such, deleted the browser cache, and it's still popping up and still redirecting through the affiliate link. Boo. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 child) Hmmm, that's weird, I didn't even realize this feature existed until I read your post. Guess I have always had it disabled, and I've never run into the issue. Have you also deleted the default bookmarks? The address bar will prefer bookmarks when you start typing an address, so if you don't delete the default ones that come with Vivaldi, they might be autocompleting? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago I did delete the bookmarks, yes. I'll have to keep playing with it and see if I can make it stop, but it does make me feel a little better knowing what it is. I just wish they were more open and transparent about it. Seeing my browser just randomly redirecting me through third party links with no warning is alarming and makes me want to go find another browser and I've gone through like 6 in the last 2 years trying to find one I like. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 child) Hmmm, that's weird, I didn't even realize this feature existed until I read your post. Guess I have always had it disabled, and I've never run into the issue. Have you also deleted the default bookmarks? The address bar will prefer bookmarks when you start typing an address, so if you don't delete the default ones that come with Vivaldi, they might be autocompleting? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago I did delete the bookmarks, yes. I'll have to keep playing with it and see if I can make it stop, but it does make me feel a little better knowing what it is. I just wish they were more open and transparent about it. Seeing my browser just randomly redirecting me through third party links with no warning is alarming and makes me want to go find another browser and I've gone through like 6 in the last 2 years trying to find one I like. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago I did delete the bookmarks, yes. I'll have to keep playing with it and see if I can make it stop, but it does make me feel a little better knowing what it is. I just wish they were more open and transparent about it. Seeing my browser just randomly redirecting me through third party links with no warning is alarming and makes me want to go find another browser and I've gone through like 6 in the last 2 years trying to find one I like. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] benny@reddthat.com 0 points 4 months ago* This seems to be disabled for me on mobile, but enabled on the desktop. Seems like a helpful feature, though they could've just done something like Firefox where it's an offline search for a website with the same starting letters. Still, appreciate the writeup and trying to minimize data collection while calling a 3rd party service in the browser and the option to disable it. permalink fedilink source parent