IMO, this looks like a reactionary move to Brave and a poor one at that: https://brave.com/blogpost_4.html https://brave.com/blogpost_4.html Aside from AdBlock

IMO, this looks like a reactionary move to Brave and a poor one at that: https://brave.com/blogpost_4.html https://brave.com/blogpost_4.html Aside from AdBlock's nebulous ability to block ads except for the highest bidder, they're introducing workable micropayments (yay!) but with a heavily centralized entity (boo) that ensures tracking will now not be blocked, but actually become a core feature. Brave addresses this by citing https://anonize.org/ https://anonize.org/ as the backend for their micropayments architecture to remove this tracking vector. I loved Flattr a decade ago when it was released, but any model that actively relies on user identification (intentionally or not) is a threat in 2016. Caveat: Read about Brave, looks great, still too young as a browser to be my daily driver.