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Brave has a history of acting shady. For a while they would take BAT "donations" for any website, and would just keep them unless the site owner signed up to r
by xgulfie 7y ago
Brave has a history of acting shady.
For a while they would take BAT "donations" for any website, and would just keep them unless the site owner signed up to receive them. This stopped a few months ago.
The whole monetization model of replacing a site's ads with their own is questionable.
The whole BAT thing seems like a scam, they offer ways to buy them but no way to sell them.
Really anything that uses a cryptocurrency for funding has that "con stink".
- alibert 7y ago"The whole monetization model of replacing a site's ads with their own is questionable." Just to be more concise, they are not exactly "replacing" ads on the site. The built-in adblocker remove all ads irrelevant of the sites and if you enable Brave Ads (the coin thing, opt in), you get up to 5 per hour (configurable) OS native notification. The notification contains a text ad with a link. Even if you don't click on the notification, you get the coin.
- BrendanEich 7y agoWe are not replacing ads on any site right now, and we won't do it without the publisher as partner, getting 70% of the gross revenue.
- _corym 7y agoYou can sell BAT via any crypto exchange or website. Coinbase, Uphold, Binance, etc. You can even choose to have BAT automatically convert to USD, Euro, etc.