It’s very shocking news for me because last 1 years I continue using this browser and I am very satisfied about this browser feature. Now I am very careful. Thanks for share this important news.
If you're so shocked and your trust is gone, you'd better switch to the forked project
Braver Browser. It is the same source code (and is constantly synchronized with the original) but without the reflinks and other similiar stuff from the original code. It also aims to remove other possible privacy breaking stuff in the future [1].
[1]
https://github.com/braver-browser/braver-browser/issues/6.