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> is not driven by ads One entity pays BAT and the other gets paid BAT to watch ads. Pretty dishonest to say "not driven by ads."
by wild_preference 8y ago
> is not driven by ads
One entity pays BAT and the other gets paid BAT to watch ads.
Pretty dishonest to say "not driven by ads."
- BrendanEich 8y agoWe don't even have ads out of user trials or paying yet, so he was not dishonest. Ads are opt-in, we have to win users over to get any revenue share to us -- and it's always <= what the user gets. Note how we take a much smaller (Patreon sized) 5% off the anonized contribution flow, so if we had enough ad-averse users contributing, we'd be ok just on that basis. It's not all about ads, but no one can count out ads right now -- $100B gross spend in US this year on digital advertising!