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To the critics: The problem is, how to pay for content while maintaining user control over their privacy? Micropayments seem like a solution, and Brave has foun
by hackuser 10y ago
To the critics: The problem is, how to pay for content while maintaining user control over their privacy? Micropayments seem like a solution, and Brave has found an economical way to implement them. How would you change Brave and,
* Still solve the confidentiality problem
* Be realistically economical: Everyone gets paid
* Earn a profit (not a sin and a good way to make the project sustainable)
* Have a technical and practical means of widespread adoption (e.g., personal contact with one website at a time isn't practical).
Social change, such as user confidentiality on the Internet, comes when someone finds a practical way to get it done, not when we all complain about it. Naysayers on the sidelines who simply don't like change and find fault for sport are, as reformers have long pointed out, the biggest obstacles.
Kudos to Brave for tackling this tough and very important issue. They just might change the world.
- st3v3r 10y ago"* Earn a profit (not a sin and a good way to make the project sustainable)" It is a sin if you're doing it by replacing a publisher's advertising with your own.
- guroot 10y agoI believe the default setting in brave is to block ads not replace. The user has control over what the browser does.
- bobajeff 10y agoMy alternative is to block all ads indiscriminately so that all of those malware/spyware/scamy/annoying/data draining/slow/buggy site's are wiped from existence and all that's left are site's that either: host their own static ads, use a pay wall, are promotional site's, are government run, are government funded, are publicly funded or are personally funded.
- hkmurakami 10y agoI'm personally of the camp that for most users, usability matters more than privacy. As trakcers violated both.