Why is this such a bad thing, though? That's the critical part missing from your post. It seems to me that the idea is to replace unethical opt-out ads with eth

Why is this such a bad thing, though? That's the critical part missing from your post. It seems to me that the idea is to replace unethical opt-out ads with ethical opt-in ads that don't track you. Besides that, Brave is a browser first, currency layer/ad network second. It doesn't need advertisers. It needs users. The more users it has, the more value there is for advertisers too.