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I don't understand why Brave Rewards needs to be enabled, but it seems very normal for the company operating a service to require some kind of account or member

I don't understand why Brave Rewards needs to be enabled, but it seems very normal for the company operating a service to require some kind of account or membership. If you don't trust Brave this is probably not the service for you.

kf6nux 5y ago
It's even more mundane than that. They just require you to allow their ads during your call. It's privacy preserving ad tech in exchange for 1:1 video calls. That's way better than sites requiring you to allow 3rd party ads to use their site. EDIT: I just saw they let you set your ads to "0 per hour" and still let you use this service. I wonder if that's an oversight.
- BrendanEich 5y ago
  No, it's intended that a rewards user can turn off ads. Some users who turn off ads then self-fund (via a custodian such as Gemini) to support their favorite sites and creators, even automatically via private browser-only analytics (so-called Auto-contribute mode).
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tsumnia 5y ago
Here is their Reddit response: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/ptbf7e/brave_talk_is_here_private_video_conferencing/hdvi7ip/ https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/ptbf7e/brave... In a nutshell, enabling Rewards is their incentive for giving the product away for free, otherwise they charge via Premium.