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It's a neat idea, but I feel like users need to be rewarded for it to really take off. Look at Patreon as an example: If you support someone there, they will of

It's a neat idea, but I feel like users need to be rewarded for it to really take off. Look at Patreon as an example: If you support someone there, they will often deliver rewards every month and payment is tied to the reward. This straightforward implementation ignores some of the privacy ideas, but might be a starting point: If a site notices I'm using a Brave-compliant browser, it tells me that I can unlock some new articles, music, artwork, search features, or whatever by funding my Brave wallet and clicking the 'support' button. Once supported, they deliver the missing content. Even a simple 'Thank you for supporting us with Brave' would probably encourage use.

Eridrus 10y ago
Publishers hate Brave though: they destroy much of the value those impressions have and then take a cut. Or at least they hate the idea of Brave, I doubt they take it seriously enough to really hate it. Brave will probably be resigned to the software scrap heap after this funding round runs out.
- abhv 10y ago
  As the interface shows, users get a report of how many times (and for how long) they viewed their top X websites. They then have an new option to contribute Y$ to those sites proportionally and effortlessly. This is a totally new option for people who dont want to see ads. Publishers who hate this plan show similar behavior to tobacco companies in the 1980s. They have a profitable, entrenched market and don't want to yield one bit of it.
- hackuser 10y ago
  > Publishers hate Brave This seems doubtful. Brave is almost completely unknown.
espadrine 10y ago
That is the plan. Of the ad money Brave receives, it is meant to take a small cut, give a large piece to the publisher, and give a cut to the user. See https://brave.com/assets/blog_images/image03.png https://brave.com/assets/blog_images/image03.png from https://blog.brave.com/braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-deal-for-publishers/ https://blog.brave.com/braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-d....

Eridrus 10y ago

Publishers hate Brave though: they destroy much of the value those impressions have and then take a cut. Or at least they hate the idea of Brave, I doubt they take it seriously enough to really hate it. Brave will probably be resigned to the software scrap heap after this funding round runs out.

abhv 10y ago
As the interface shows, users get a report of how many times (and for how long) they viewed their top X websites. They then have an new option to contribute Y$ to those sites proportionally and effortlessly. This is a totally new option for people who dont want to see ads. Publishers who hate this plan show similar behavior to tobacco companies in the 1980s. They have a profitable, entrenched market and don't want to yield one bit of it.
hackuser 10y ago
> Publishers hate Brave This seems doubtful. Brave is almost completely unknown.

espadrine 10y ago

That is the plan. Of the ad money Brave receives, it is meant to take a small cut, give a large piece to the publisher, and give a cut to the user. See https://brave.com/assets/blog_images/image03.png https://brave.com/assets/blog_images/image03.png from https://blog.brave.com/braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-deal-for-publishers/ https://blog.brave.com/braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-d....