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I wonder if this will result in more diversity of ads, or more of the same. As a Brave user, the concept of automatically supporting websites and creators is in

by _23sd 4y ago

I wonder if this will result in more diversity of ads, or more of the same. As a Brave user, the concept of automatically supporting websites and creators is interesting, but I don’t like seeing scammy crypto/web3 ads so I disabled them before long.

lopatin 4y ago
My intuition is that it will not change. I feel like there are two classes of people who use Brave: 1. Hype driven people who crypto ads work well on. 2. Privacy driven tech people who are pretty much non-monetizable. Self-service ads are useful for small to medium-sized advertisers who want to target specific niches with pinpoint accuracy. If Brave's whole thing is that they protect your privacy from targeted ads, and also they lack the scale to be useful for non-generic ads, then I'm not sure any of this makes sense.
- komali2 4y ago
  Why do you think privacy driven tech people are non monetizable? There's a whole hardware industry around built them for devices with audit trails and etc.
- nothrowaways 4y ago
  If you are privacy driven tech person (class 2) you won't use brave at all.
  - comte7092 4y ago
    As a privacy driven tech person, I find brave to be semi cringe yet at the same time one of the few companies that is actually trying to innovate on an approachable set of mainstream, privacy focused tools, a web browser, search, and a (more) privacy preserving ads platform for the web. I don’t like everything that they do, but I respect the fact that they are actually trying things. Saying flat out that a privacy driven tech person wouldn’t use brave at all is reflective of the counterproductive discourse within the community, where every tool in existence fails someone’s purity test. Firefox, ddg, protonmail, etc have all had their scandals.
    - KyleBerezin 4y ago
      Tor for private browsing is a neat feature too. Obviously if you are doing stuff where tor is actually needed, you should be using a dedicated browser, but for 'I don't want to be put on a list' stuff it works great.

by _23sd 4y ago

lopatin 4y ago

My intuition is that it will not change. I feel like there are two classes of people who use Brave: 1. Hype driven people who crypto ads work well on. 2. Privacy driven tech people who are pretty much non-monetizable. Self-service ads are useful for small to medium-sized advertisers who want to target specific niches with pinpoint accuracy. If Brave's whole thing is that they protect your privacy from targeted ads, and also they lack the scale to be useful for non-generic ads, then I'm not sure any of this makes sense.

komali2 4y ago
Why do you think privacy driven tech people are non monetizable? There's a whole hardware industry around built them for devices with audit trails and etc.
nothrowaways 4y ago
If you are privacy driven tech person (class 2) you won't use brave at all.
- comte7092 4y ago
  As a privacy driven tech person, I find brave to be semi cringe yet at the same time one of the few companies that is actually trying to innovate on an approachable set of mainstream, privacy focused tools, a web browser, search, and a (more) privacy preserving ads platform for the web. I don’t like everything that they do, but I respect the fact that they are actually trying things. Saying flat out that a privacy driven tech person wouldn’t use brave at all is reflective of the counterproductive discourse within the community, where every tool in existence fails someone’s purity test. Firefox, ddg, protonmail, etc have all had their scandals.
  - KyleBerezin 4y ago
    Tor for private browsing is a neat feature too. Obviously if you are doing stuff where tor is actually needed, you should be using a dedicated browser, but for 'I don't want to be put on a list' stuff it works great.