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I find these kind of bait-and-switches to be really tasteless. Company X is created originally with the sole purpose of blocking ads and privacy trackers - and
by turdnagel 8y ago
I find these kind of bait-and-switches to be really tasteless. Company X is created originally with the sole purpose of blocking ads and privacy trackers - and then decides to monetize using some kind of "good" ad. (I'm looking at you, AdBlock Plus.)
- jsloss 8y agoThat's not what this is. I believe Brave has always had this model in mind. Or for quite some time at least.
- justsee 8y agoThere's no bait and switch here. Ads are opt-in and for many of us aren't the most interesting aspect of baking a digital wallet right into the browser.
- Helloworldboy 8y agoAds are opt in and this has been the stated plan basically since the beginning.
- rjf72 8y agoThis has always been Brave's monetization strategy. And it's also completely opt-in. By default the software simply blocks ads, runs incredibly performant, and has a large number of built in privacy respecting features which can be toggled on a per site basis (scripts, tracking, etc). If the user wants to see native ads, they can. If they want to see 'cleaned ads, they can. If they want to see no ads, they can.
- turdnagel 8y agoIt appears I'm dead wrong about this - sorry for posting before I got the whole story.