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With the referral program and integration with a cryptocurrency, anyone can shill for it. It's hard if not impossible to know if someone promoting Brave has a s
by tomstockmail 5y ago
With the referral program and integration with a cryptocurrency, anyone can shill for it. It's hard if not impossible to know if someone promoting Brave has a stake in BAT or not.
Those that are showing Braves many problems ("badmouth") don't have a stake one way or the other except to warn people.
- cheschire 5y agoThat’s a romantic view. There’s folks on HN working for direct competitors of brave. I doubt that everyone defending brave is a shill, or that everyone criticizing it does so with the purest intent as you’re suggesting.
- tomstockmail 5y agoThe only real competitors for Brave are other cryptocurrencies, which yes there are many. I feel there's plenty of reasons to not like Brave and few if any are about suggesting a superior cryptocurrency. The only non-compromised Brave users I've come across are mobile, and they are the ones that find using the Firefox add-ons menu to install uBlock origin too complicated. They are unlikely to learn the BAT system.
- maeil 5y agoThere is hardly a significant website out there with a higher concentration of Google and Microsoft employees than Hackernews, in light of which that's quite the baffling comment to make.
- tomstockmail 5y agoI'm guessing you consider Google/Microsoft a competitor to Brave. Google I might get, Microsoft I don't. Neither consider Brave any real threat. Another commenter said "romantic view" - I think that applies here.