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They have no choice but to maintain focus on advertising. That's the whole schtick. Without it there is no product.

__MatrixMan__ 4y ago
I think the primary innovation is that they can distribute money in a way that is analogous to how attention is distributed. Getting that money from their ad business strikes me as a temporary necessary evil. I hope that the long term plan is to get people to recognize that a non-ad-funded-web is a better web so that we just pre-load our BAT wallets with $10 each month with the idea that it'll gradually go to the content creators as we browse. It's a bit of a leap from where we are today, but if anybody can make a culture shift like that happen, it's the content creators united behind a common cause. They're influential by definition. Also, in a soon-to-be-dominated-by-LLM's web, I think a steady trickle of BAT contributions to your site might be a reasonable component in a scheme that suggests to you that I'm a human user. Sure, bot makers can fake such a history, but it would be expensive for them to do so at scale. Hopefully something ZK something can be done to allow for this in a way that doesn't require me to also make my browsing habits public.
masukomi 4y ago
I mean... their could ask people to pay for a quality product that protects their privacy and keeps ads out of their faces. You know, the old fashioned concept of making a product worth paying for and asking people to pay for it. And... I know this one is going to be even more controversial, use real money instead of inserting crypto into the mix for no good reason.
- beebeepka 4y ago
  How much would you pay for a lifetime and/or annual subscription? I am only asking because I've been trying to figure it out for myself. Would I pay 100 and expect zero telemetry, tracking, healthsheck, studies, etc? That would be unrealistic, imho. Then again, I am not exactly a visionary, or an expert
  - __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
    I wouldn't pay $100 all to Brave, but I'd pay $100 and let Brave keep $30 if I had reason to believe that the other $70 was making it into the right hands.
EGreg 4y ago
Why is that? Capitalism forces them?

I think the primary innovation is that they can distribute money in a way that is analogous to how attention is distributed. Getting that money from their ad business strikes me as a temporary necessary evil. I hope that the long term plan is to get people to recognize that a non-ad-funded-web is a better web so that we just pre-load our BAT wallets with $10 each month with the idea that it'll gradually go to the content creators as we browse. It's a bit of a leap from where we are today, but if anybody can make a culture shift like that happen, it's the content creators united behind a common cause. They're influential by definition. Also, in a soon-to-be-dominated-by-LLM's web, I think a steady trickle of BAT contributions to your site might be a reasonable component in a scheme that suggests to you that I'm a human user. Sure, bot makers can fake such a history, but it would be expensive for them to do so at scale. Hopefully something ZK something can be done to allow for this in a way that doesn't require me to also make my browsing habits public.

masukomi 4y ago

I mean... their could ask people to pay for a quality product that protects their privacy and keeps ads out of their faces. You know, the old fashioned concept of making a product worth paying for and asking people to pay for it. And... I know this one is going to be even more controversial, use real money instead of inserting crypto into the mix for no good reason.

beebeepka 4y ago
How much would you pay for a lifetime and/or annual subscription? I am only asking because I've been trying to figure it out for myself. Would I pay 100 and expect zero telemetry, tracking, healthsheck, studies, etc? That would be unrealistic, imho. Then again, I am not exactly a visionary, or an expert
- __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
  I wouldn't pay $100 all to Brave, but I'd pay $100 and let Brave keep $30 if I had reason to believe that the other $70 was making it into the right hands.

EGreg 4y ago

Why is that? Capitalism forces them?