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The issue was later addressed publicly by Brave's founder and CEO, [[wikipedia:Brendan_Eich|Brendan Eich]], who apologized and referred to the incident as a 'mistake', stating that "autocomplete should not add any code" and that the lack of disclosure was "the big problem". <ref>{{Cite web |last=Eich |first=Brendan |date=2020-06-06 |title=We made a mistake, we're correcting: Brave default autocompletes verbatim "binance.us" in address bar to add an affiliate code. |url=https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701040411/https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201 |archive-date=2020-07-01 |access-date=2026-03-18 |website=Twitter}}</ref> | The issue was later addressed publicly by Brave's founder and CEO, [[wikipedia:Brendan_Eich|Brendan Eich]], who apologized and referred to the incident as a 'mistake', stating that "autocomplete should not add any code" and that the lack of disclosure was "the big problem".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eich |first=Brendan |date=2020-06-06 |title=We made a mistake, we're correcting: Brave default autocompletes verbatim "binance.us" in address bar to add an affiliate code. |url=https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701040411/https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201 |archive-date=2020-07-01 |access-date=2026-03-18 |website=Twitter}}</ref> | ||
The fix was shipped two days after the original incident, in stable release v1.9.80 on June 8, 2020, which set "Show Brave suggested sites in autocomplete suggestions" to off by default.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-08 |title=Release Channel v1.9.80 |url=https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.9.80 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610221250/https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.9.80 |archive-date=2020-06-10 |access-date=2026-03-18 |website=GitHub}}</ref> | The fix was shipped two days after the original incident, in stable release v1.9.80 on June 8, 2020, which set "Show Brave suggested sites in autocomplete suggestions" to off by default.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-08 |title=Release Channel v1.9.80 |url=https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.9.80 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610221250/https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.9.80 |archive-date=2020-06-10 |access-date=2026-03-18 |website=GitHub}}</ref> | ||