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> Particularly in the period during which they solicited funds to "help support" blogs and pages by people who had not signed up IANAL but this sounds like str
by steerablesafe 7y ago
> Particularly in the period during which they solicited funds to "help support" blogs and pages by people who had not signed up
IANAL but this sounds like straight up fraud, not just "overstepping the line a little bit".
- Nursie 7y agoI agree, they seemed to be scraping author images from blogs, and putting messages up saying "You can support the site by sending a tip!" There's a screenshot here - https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-browser-no-longer-claims-to-fundraise-on-behalf-of-others-so-thats-nice/brave-tom-scott-donation-page-december-2018/ https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br... Tom Scott was alerted to this when someone sent him a tweet asking if he'd got thte tip, and was annoyed because he had no intention of monetising anything. It does indeed look fraudulent to me. They have changed the behaviour now IIRC.
- fuu_dev 7y agoAnd it only took legal fraud accusation and online media coverage to resolve that. Trustworthy :)