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You've hit on the reason I think the Brave token is such a great idea (https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ https://brave.com/brave-rewards/). I know it's en vogue
by Gareth321 3y ago
You've hit on the reason I think the Brave token is such a great idea (https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ https://brave.com/brave-rewards/). I know it's en vogue to trash gimmicky cryptocurrencies, and to be honest I don't care how this gets implemented. The concept is great: a shared, fungible way to easily support random websites one visits, and control the kinds of ads one accepts. If sites had a little tip jar which I could easily tap to avoid ads, I'd use it. There's just too much friction today in supporting sites, and all of them want a subscription.
- bheadmaster 3y agoThe whole point of advertisements is that the person pushing them doesn't earn anything from them - but rather, force-feeds information about the existence of their product to the public. Now, instead of ruining our public space with horrible billboards and kitschy flashing lights, they ruin our digital space with horrible pop-ups and kitschy lust-provoking videos. I don't care about those who run ads, nor those who allow ad companies to run ads on their content. If you earn money through ads, that's your problem, not mine, and it's not my responsibility to watch them. Ads are fundamentally intrusive, and pretending like the society at large has some kind of "responsibility" towards those who earn money from ads is laughable.
- schlauerfox 3y agoThat was the original intention of HashCash, the inspiration to Bitcoin. Antispam micropayments to add some trivial level of cost to online interactions to make scale unaffordable.
- freehorse 3y agoThis looks like a good idea indeed. I would not mind something like that, as long as some reasonable level of control from the user side exists. I will try it in my mobile as I use brave anyway there.