1. Brave hijacking links and injecting their referral id.
  2. Discontinuing vBAT, forcing its users to KYC with either Gemini or Uphold
  3. Gemini and/or Uphold delisting BAT across the globe and confiscating the users’ funds, all the while Brave offers no recourse despite being the actor which placed its users in this position in the first place.

This is not a rant, it’s an enumeration of events and I genuinely wonder what number 4. is going to be.

  • Confident-Salad-839@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago
    1. This was years ago. It was a mistake, a big one. But they immediately fixed it and apologized.
    2. This is due to law and regulation, and to prevent abuse.
    3. I have no idea what you are talking about here.
    • Popular-Art-3859@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago
      1. It was a calculated ‘mistake’. It’s not like a bug in the code slipped those referral ids in there.
      2. See 3.
      3. My BAT is on Gemini, because I was forced to transfer the balance of the vBAT from the browser and to an exchange proposed by Brave: https://community.brave.com/t/vbat-is-eliminated/468369 The exchange, Gemini, delisted BAT and seized my balance. I was given a window of opportunity to withdraw it, but the window of opportunity passed as the only warning I received was an email caught in the spam filter. No warning whatsoever from Brave where every day was business as usual. I’m not the only one affected by this, just go to: https://community.brave.com/t/brave-rewards-canada-gemini-no-longer-supports-bat/506599/2
        • Popular-Art-3859@alien.topOPBEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          One week, the email was sent on the 19 and my BAT was liquidated on the 27. Month of September. I realized this now as I was unable to connect to my wallet after a fresh install. Naturally I went to the discourse Brave chat and realized it was over based on previous comments. Checked my spam folder and there it was, the only warning that I received from Gemini. No mention from Brave though, not a beep. The BAT was still accumulating from ads though, I could see my actual balance and the new estimate grow despite me not having access to the wallet, but there was no indication of this (inability to access wallet) until the fresh install yesterday.

          • DobberAD@alien.topBEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Eight-day window is pretty wild, but I’ll reserve my criticsms on that for Gemini.