Additionally to the other two replies, Brave also injected referral IDs to an URI when you directly typed it in. Allegedly it was a mistake and they put it behind a toggle:

• Article: https://www.technewsworld.com/story/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-urls-for-cash-86701.html
• Their blog: https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/

Also, per default the new tab page shows advertisements in the background. Firefox does also show ads on the new tab page in the link grid, so it’s a bad thing both do and you can disable it on both. But with an almost-full-window sized ad Brave managed to make that worse still.

Slippy noooooo!

Well, not completely Theseus’d, but Andrew Stockdale is the only continuous member of Wolfmother!

Wow, such innovation, very impressive! I’ve never had anything that reminds me of shit and makes me go broke, too! That definitely justifies wasting energy, water, and all those GPUs and RAMs!

I’ve looked through a few pages of response on Nitter, hoping to find at least one sane response, and I didn’t know what to expect, but holy hell. One guy. And their reply rather looks like a quote (maybe some docs, if that exists in LLM land) rather than full condemnation, before going on a trip in the next reply:

But the rest? Absolute zilch, noone full-on telling that guy what an absolute smoothbrained fuckwit they are. Instead most of the replies are either giving “optimization” advice, thanking them for the oh so helpful warning or roasting their “prompting” ability. It’s quite horrifying, actually.