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I used brave for awhile and don't see these notifications. Are they opt-in?

• johnpowell 7y ago
  Yeah. They are. I made a comment a while ago about how when IE6 was destroying computers (~2003) I charged a lot of money to fix people computers unless they switched to Firefox. But if they used FF I would help for free. That was the beauty of my plan. I didn't care about money I just hated fixing my families computers. And using FF solved nearly all my problems. And then a guy said he would go as far as putting the IE icon on FF so people wouldn't have to really do anything different. Ideally they just wouldn't notice. So now that there is a stupid token I wonder how many installs of brave are actually legit. Seems trivial to just install it on families computers and fake it as Chrome and use your account to collect the tokens.
  • eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
    I'm confused about their business model now. If they are opt-in, then why would anybody opt-in to them?
    • topmonk 7y ago
      You get “bat” ethereum tokens for every ad displayed, which you can sell for a profit or “tip” websites as a sort of microtransaction.