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> Keep an eye out for accounts that try to push this mischaracterisation and see if they're linked to the existing ad tech industry... You keep making vague ac

> Keep an eye out for accounts that try to push this mischaracterisation and see if they're linked to the existing ad tech industry... You keep making vague accusations of shilling so I'll turn the tables - what exactly is your connection to Brave?

justsee 8y ago
Shilling? No, consistently seeing the same attempts at poisoning the well with regard to Brave's model become rather irritating. I have no connection with Brave.
notafanofBAT 8y ago
I've been following brave since the Tom Scott thing blew up. The whole thing seems like a disingenuous cash grab or a (slowish) pump and dump crypto scheme. There are quite a few zealous defenders of BAT and Brave that always turn up in threads like these that you have to question why these people are so willing to look past what seem like obvious flaws in the product. Anyway, on reddit the user with the same name has deleted their account but this one is still active and active in the BAT / Brave subreddits. [0] Full disclosure: I came to root against Brave after seeing how Tom Scott was treated and how that whole debacle went. I don’t even work in Tech so really, I shouldn’t care. If your product has to be opt-out to have a chance of success, then it's a failure from day one. [0] https://old.reddit.com/user/justsee_/posts/ https://old.reddit.com/user/justsee_/posts/ edit: opt-out in regards to the creaors being sent BAT by users without knowing about that. i.e. the Tom Scott Fiasco.
- Dylan16807 8y ago
  What's wrong with how they treated him? I thought they fixed everything pretty well. And they did make it opt-in for receiving 'real' tokens, as far as I can tell from the last few minutes of searching. The UGP tokens can still be sent at people that didn't opt-in, but those are more like coupon codes than money. Users can only get them for free, and they have an expiration date.

justsee 8y ago

Shilling? No, consistently seeing the same attempts at poisoning the well with regard to Brave's model become rather irritating. I have no connection with Brave.

notafanofBAT 8y ago

I've been following brave since the Tom Scott thing blew up. The whole thing seems like a disingenuous cash grab or a (slowish) pump and dump crypto scheme. There are quite a few zealous defenders of BAT and Brave that always turn up in threads like these that you have to question why these people are so willing to look past what seem like obvious flaws in the product. Anyway, on reddit the user with the same name has deleted their account but this one is still active and active in the BAT / Brave subreddits. [0] Full disclosure: I came to root against Brave after seeing how Tom Scott was treated and how that whole debacle went. I don’t even work in Tech so really, I shouldn’t care. If your product has to be opt-out to have a chance of success, then it's a failure from day one. [0] https://old.reddit.com/user/justsee_/posts/ https://old.reddit.com/user/justsee_/posts/ edit: opt-out in regards to the creaors being sent BAT by users without knowing about that. i.e. the Tom Scott Fiasco.

Dylan16807 8y ago
What's wrong with how they treated him? I thought they fixed everything pretty well. And they did make it opt-in for receiving 'real' tokens, as far as I can tell from the last few minutes of searching. The UGP tokens can still be sent at people that didn't opt-in, but those are more like coupon codes than money. Users can only get them for free, and they have an expiration date.