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Let's be clear - you cannot start collecting donations on someone's behalf without their consent and expect them to be happy when they find out. Especially when

Let's be clear - you cannot start collecting donations on someone's behalf without their consent and expect them to be happy when they find out. Especially when the person you are donating to is a business person with their own public image that they have to maintain and especially when you act shifty about actually handing over the money. Brave might be a great group of people with fantastic intentions, but their behaviour here is identical to someone committing identity theft.

isoskeles 8y ago
> identical to someone committing identity theft I don't fully understand what you mean here. Are they attempting to take out loans or credit cards for their own use with this person's information, resulting in potentially ruinous consequences for this person's credit? Rhetorical question in that case, but really, I'd like to understand what you mean. Is it in reference to your first sentence? My assumption is that people using the Brave browser or extension (I don't know how it works) would see these donation solicitations on every blog and understand that they're (Brave) collecting donations on behalf of just about anyone, not some specific person they are pretending to be, and not in any sense where these people are opting in to their platform one-at-a-time.
- int_19h 8y ago
  The UX for donations does not say anything about "on behalf". Nor does it say that the person has not requested that. Nor does it say that the money won't actually go to that person unless and until they explicitly come and claim it. Nor does it say that the person isn't even notified until the total is over $100. As far as consequences to the person - asking for donations in and of itself affects one's reputation.
brandnewlow 8y ago
Not our intent. We shipped some bad UI, got a bunch of deserved flack for it, and have hustled to fix things. Changes go live tomorrow and are detailed here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/ https://brave.com/rewards-update/ Thanks for caring about this done in a respectful, creator-first way.

isoskeles 8y ago

> identical to someone committing identity theft I don't fully understand what you mean here. Are they attempting to take out loans or credit cards for their own use with this person's information, resulting in potentially ruinous consequences for this person's credit? Rhetorical question in that case, but really, I'd like to understand what you mean. Is it in reference to your first sentence? My assumption is that people using the Brave browser or extension (I don't know how it works) would see these donation solicitations on every blog and understand that they're (Brave) collecting donations on behalf of just about anyone, not some specific person they are pretending to be, and not in any sense where these people are opting in to their platform one-at-a-time.

int_19h 8y ago
The UX for donations does not say anything about "on behalf". Nor does it say that the person has not requested that. Nor does it say that the money won't actually go to that person unless and until they explicitly come and claim it. Nor does it say that the person isn't even notified until the total is over $100. As far as consequences to the person - asking for donations in and of itself affects one's reputation.

brandnewlow 8y ago

Not our intent. We shipped some bad UI, got a bunch of deserved flack for it, and have hustled to fix things. Changes go live tomorrow and are detailed here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/ https://brave.com/rewards-update/ Thanks for caring about this done in a respectful, creator-first way.