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You can just not use those features. It's not like they upsell you on them or anything. If you don't use them they aren't in your face. I actually tried using t
by rosywoozlechan 4y ago
You can just not use those features. It's not like they upsell you on them or anything. If you don't use them they aren't in your face. I actually tried using them and found them kind of silly and useless. No website or creator I visit seems to be using attention tokens, and the tokens I bought to just to try it out remain unspent.
- speedgoose 4y agoI don’t want to promote scams though.
- netr0ute 4y agoHow is it a scam?
- thatguy0900 4y agoThere was a big uproar when it came out, they would accept donations on behalf of creators even if those creators had never made any kind of contract with them. Not sure if they still do that but it's pretty sketchy behavior to take money on behalf of someone you've never talked to and probably doesn't want you taking money for them. Especially people that already have actual donation methods.
- jonathansampson 4y agoThat's quite misleading; please see my response to a previous comment regarding the initial "payments" UI/UX: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32755143 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32755143.
- k__ 4y agoDon't encourage them.
- nwienert 4y agoIn the future, just flag. It's explicitly breaking rules.
- speedgoose 4y agoHow is it breaking the rules?
- nwienert 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Under comments, rule #1, 2, 6. No one benefits from your comment. If you think it's a scam, put some rationale. It's a lazy comment that adds no value.
- speedgoose 4y agoI was merely replying to one answer to my comment. I don’t think one has to write an essay in such discussions. Water is wet, scams are scams.
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- speedgoose 4y agoAgain, I don’t see why my comment needs any special long explanation. It’s short and I answer that I don’t want to support scams. The context is clear from the comments thread, crypto money features in Brave are considered as scammy by many. I believe most people understood. I’m sorry you wasted time reading my comment.
- smoldesu 4y agoBrave directly profits off of showing their users advertisements. I have no intention of supporting that monetization scheme, crypto or not. It's a direct downgrade from the privacy models of Ungoogled Chromium and Firefox.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoFirefox also profits from showing ads, search "sponsored" in about:preferences. This is on by default, but I think firefox users forget about it because everybody with sense disables it.
- mr90210 4y agoHow much would you pay for a browser that does not track you at all?
- sascha_sl 4y agoThe answer is nothing, because a browser without significant adoption is bound to have some inevitable issues. I've tried Orion, for instance, but the fact that 1Password is not signing extensions so that IPC works on these browsers (rightfully so, because it'd be easy to grab your entire vault) already makes it not worth considering. It also would likely need to be proprietary, because selling binaries doesn't really work too well if your product picks up steam. Which then conflicts with the privacy promise. Ungoogled Chromium is probably your best bet.
- speedgoose 4y agoThe problem is tracking brings more money than what the average user is willing to pay. My persona is not relevant. I think the solution is from regulations, like GDPR in Europe. It’s not popular to say that here, but at least you can think about it.
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- Barrin92 4y ago>You can just not use those features. It's not like they upsell you on them or anything as far as I can tell the crypto settings are the only settings that don't sync across devices which I think is a pretty annoying and deliberate dark pattern.