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You could refuse to serve to web browsers with a Brave user-agent. Or I could fetch your website using wget and strip out ads. If you can't control a user agent

by tiles 10y ago

You could refuse to serve to web browsers with a Brave user-agent. Or I could fetch your website using wget and strip out ads. If you can't control a user agent in other situations, why do you want to control it here?

mike-cardwell 10y ago
I don't want to control the user agent, I just want to programatically announce that I am not talking part in the Brave micro-tip system, so that no end-user funds are put in a wallet for me which will never be withdrawn. Looking into this further, they would eventually email me after there are $10 worth of funds queued up for me, and then after 30 days of me ignoring them, those funds would be spread out amongst other sites who do want them. However, until that wallet has at least $10 in it, Brave is just sitting on top of free money. I don't want that. [edit] P.S, Brave doesn't identify it's self in the user agent header. I just downloaded the Linux version and it identified it's self thus: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
- tokenizerrr 10y ago
  > Looking into this further, they would eventually email me after there are $10 worth of funds queued up for me, and then after 30 days of me ignoring them, those funds would be spread out amongst other sites who do want them. And this means the users, who think they are contributing to you, actually aren't at all. This seems deceptive.
- witty_username 10y ago
  > However, until that wallet has at least $10 in it, Brave is just sitting on top of free money. I don't want that. One reason could be they don't want to bug website owners about small amounts.
  - mike-cardwell 10y ago
    How kind of them to hang on to the money instead of bugging the people it was intended for.
  - Sylos 10y ago
    Doesn't justify the 30 day limit, though. That there needs to be some limit is clear, but I don't see a justification for it being only 30 days.
  - st3v3r 10y ago
    So let the website owner supply a wallet address so Brave doesn't have to hold onto the money?

by tiles 10y ago

mike-cardwell 10y ago

I don't want to control the user agent, I just want to programatically announce that I am not talking part in the Brave micro-tip system, so that no end-user funds are put in a wallet for me which will never be withdrawn. Looking into this further, they would eventually email me after there are $10 worth of funds queued up for me, and then after 30 days of me ignoring them, those funds would be spread out amongst other sites who do want them. However, until that wallet has at least $10 in it, Brave is just sitting on top of free money. I don't want that. [edit] P.S, Brave doesn't identify it's self in the user agent header. I just downloaded the Linux version and it identified it's self thus: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36

tokenizerrr 10y ago
> Looking into this further, they would eventually email me after there are $10 worth of funds queued up for me, and then after 30 days of me ignoring them, those funds would be spread out amongst other sites who do want them. And this means the users, who think they are contributing to you, actually aren't at all. This seems deceptive.
witty_username 10y ago
> However, until that wallet has at least $10 in it, Brave is just sitting on top of free money. I don't want that. One reason could be they don't want to bug website owners about small amounts.
- mike-cardwell 10y ago
  How kind of them to hang on to the money instead of bugging the people it was intended for.
- Sylos 10y ago
  Doesn't justify the 30 day limit, though. That there needs to be some limit is clear, but I don't see a justification for it being only 30 days.
- st3v3r 10y ago
  So let the website owner supply a wallet address so Brave doesn't have to hold onto the money?