Employee here- I haven’t seen an official comment here yet
The JSON file that was linked to does have partner domains which (when the header is present) the website will provide a specific integration. When those specific partner sites are visited, the headers are sent with the request
An example someone mentioned here already is marketwatch. They have a promotion where you can sign up for a free subscription if you use Brave
The browser is open source and nothing is being hidden- although this and the whitelist (used for a better webcompat experience) could be better documented
Should these lists be shown in the UI and configurable? (ex: disableable?) I wonder what a better experience would look like for people that don’t want this functionality
I reviewed with team and created https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3301 to track this (folks are welcome to give it thumbs up). The fix for this should be something we can deliver in our next product release (0.60.x - 9 days from now)
The JSON file that was linked to does have partner domains which (when the header is present) the website will provide a specific integration. When those specific partner sites are visited, the headers are sent with the request
An example someone mentioned here already is marketwatch. They have a promotion where you can sign up for a free subscription if you use Brave
The browser is open source and nothing is being hidden- although this and the whitelist (used for a better webcompat experience) could be better documented
Should these lists be shown in the UI and configurable? (ex: disableable?) I wonder what a better experience would look like for people that don’t want this functionality