Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior

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  1. lobsters-ansible

    Ansible playbook for lobste.rs

    The actual text that all Brave users are seeing when they visit Lobste.rs is:

    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:

    https://lobste.rs/c/bwbssx

    https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45

    and

    https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761

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  3. Lobsters

    Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

    The actual text that all Brave users are seeing when they visit Lobste.rs is:

    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:

    https://lobste.rs/c/bwbssx

    https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45

    and

    https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761

  4. brave-browser

    Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

    Not so. The Chromium bits have the native tracking goo we neutralize, see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-....

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