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Well that's not my twitter (nice dox attempt) but since that poster didn't know the history and is here on HN, I've got some links wrt ad replacement [1] and th
by pull_my_finger 6y ago
Well that's not my twitter (nice dox attempt) but since that poster didn't know the history and is here on HN, I've got some links wrt ad replacement [1] and the shadow accounts + tipping where you don't know you aren't even notified you received money until you break a certain threshold and if you don't claim it within a certain amount of time it gets "recycled" back into the growth pool [2] conversation.
I did mention that Brave "fixes" these issues when the public inevitably freaks out, but it's still worth noting the pattern of intent.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/mozilla-co-founder-unveils-brave-a-web-browser-that-blocks-ads-by-default/?comments=1 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/mozil...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999