The actual text that all Brave users are seeing when they visit Lobste.rs is:<p>Blocking a cryptocurrency scam where the Brave browser pretended to be fundraising on behalf of a site without that site's knowledge or consent, then lied about funds being held in escrow and kept them for itself. For details:<p><a href="https://lobste.rs/c/bwbssx" rel="nofollow">https://lobste.rs/c/bwbssx</a><p><a href="https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45">https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45</a><p>and<p><a href="https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761">https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761</a><p>Edit: repeated below comment.<p>As I understand it, Brave added a "donate to lobste.rs" link when viewed in their browser, and then kept all the money.<p>If you are using Brave, confirm any donation (and maybe anything else involving money) in another browser.
As a visitor, if a website I browse decides to block the browser of my choosing, I'd be more inclined to stop using the hostile website than change my browser of choice. that, or faking my UserAgent.
This is nothing new, Brave has basically been a malware since launch.<p>If I remember correctly their first scandal was them injecting their own referral link during signups on cryptocurrency platforms.<p>I just can't understand why some people, especially some people on HackerNews, keep using it. Of you think Google is bad, Brave is the antichrist.