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>. I want to support people who offer services that I use. I don't want to prostitute my private life to do it. You don't have to, just don't opt-in for Brave

>. I want to support people who offer services that I use. I don't want to prostitute my private life to do it. You don't have to, just don't opt-in for Brave rewards (aka ads), and fund your tipping wallet with your money (you can as of today) and voilà ! You'll have: - No ads, no trackers - You contribute toward content creators with your cash like you do with Spotify/Netflix using a built-in wallet in your browser - A fast and privacy-first browser

abainbridge 8y ago
That sounds ideal. How do I fund my tipping wallet. I can't see anything about it in the Brave desktop brower's UI.
- maxencecornet 8y ago
  Click on the settings button on the top right --> Brave rewards --> add funds
simias 8y ago
That does sound a lot more like something I would use. Do the Brave folks get a cut of that money or is it completely peer-to-peer using a cryptocurrency network? If it's the latter what's Brave's business model, they just have a whole bunch of BAT and bet on them gaining value through adoption and deflation? Making it easier and faster to transfer small amounts of money online is definitely something that needs improving but unfortunately so far cryptocurrency-based solution haven't really managed to solve the problem, mainly because speculation makes them a pretty terrible currency. That's a tough problem to solve.
- maxencecornet 8y ago
  >Do the Brave folks get a cut of that money or is it completely peer-to-peer using a cryptocurrency network? No, they don't take a cut if you fund your wallet directly and use it to tip the content creators. >If it's the latter what's Brave's business model Here is how they make money, just pasting my comment from below: By default, ads are blocked, but users of Brave can opt-in to have privacy-friendly ads from the Brave network displayed on websites they browse. Brave get 30% of the revenue from those ads, and the users get 70% of the revenue as BAT tokens Users can then use those BAT tokens to tip the websites they like that signed up as Brave publishers (see a list here: https://batgrowth.com/publishers https://batgrowth.com/publishers) So the Ads / Get paid to browse part of Brave is 100% optional and opt-in, many people think it is mandatory >Making it easier and faster to transfer small amounts of money online is definitely something that needs improving but unfortunately so far cryptocurrency-based solution haven't really managed to solve the problem, mainly because speculation makes them a pretty terrible currency. That's a tough problem to solve. Yeah, I'm kinda fascinated about Brave's model, I'm wondering if it will be the first cryptocurrency-based solution that make sense to me
  - rvnx 8y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser) Brave intends to pay content publishers 55% of the replaced ad revenue. Brave Software 15% Brave ad partners 15% Browser users 15% of the revenue. So roughly 30%
    - maxencecornet 8y ago
      Thank you for correcting me! I wrote the numbers that were on top of my head

abainbridge 8y ago

That sounds ideal. How do I fund my tipping wallet. I can't see anything about it in the Brave desktop brower's UI.

maxencecornet 8y ago
Click on the settings button on the top right --> Brave rewards --> add funds

simias 8y ago

That does sound a lot more like something I would use. Do the Brave folks get a cut of that money or is it completely peer-to-peer using a cryptocurrency network? If it's the latter what's Brave's business model, they just have a whole bunch of BAT and bet on them gaining value through adoption and deflation? Making it easier and faster to transfer small amounts of money online is definitely something that needs improving but unfortunately so far cryptocurrency-based solution haven't really managed to solve the problem, mainly because speculation makes them a pretty terrible currency. That's a tough problem to solve.

maxencecornet 8y ago
>Do the Brave folks get a cut of that money or is it completely peer-to-peer using a cryptocurrency network? No, they don't take a cut if you fund your wallet directly and use it to tip the content creators. >If it's the latter what's Brave's business model Here is how they make money, just pasting my comment from below: By default, ads are blocked, but users of Brave can opt-in to have privacy-friendly ads from the Brave network displayed on websites they browse. Brave get 30% of the revenue from those ads, and the users get 70% of the revenue as BAT tokens Users can then use those BAT tokens to tip the websites they like that signed up as Brave publishers (see a list here: https://batgrowth.com/publishers https://batgrowth.com/publishers) So the Ads / Get paid to browse part of Brave is 100% optional and opt-in, many people think it is mandatory >Making it easier and faster to transfer small amounts of money online is definitely something that needs improving but unfortunately so far cryptocurrency-based solution haven't really managed to solve the problem, mainly because speculation makes them a pretty terrible currency. That's a tough problem to solve. Yeah, I'm kinda fascinated about Brave's model, I'm wondering if it will be the first cryptocurrency-based solution that make sense to me
- rvnx 8y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser) Brave intends to pay content publishers 55% of the replaced ad revenue. Brave Software 15% Brave ad partners 15% Browser users 15% of the revenue. So roughly 30%
  - maxencecornet 8y ago
    Thank you for correcting me! I wrote the numbers that were on top of my head