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And regular advertising (where the audience doesn't get paid for consuming adverts) isn't a grift?
by rekoil 3y ago
And regular advertising (where the audience doesn't get paid for consuming adverts) isn't a grift?
- bheadmaster 3y agoRegular advertising doesn't promise the user that they will get paid for clicking ads. Regardless, whataboutism doesn't make Brave's scheme any less of a grift.
- rekoil 3y agoFair enough, but you do get paid so that isn't a broken promise or anything, it's just not that much because their ad network hasn't really been much of an ad network. I had it enabled for a while, thought it was a great idea, but it's so little money that I've gone back to just disabling it personally.
- salad-tycoon 3y agoYou don’t need to click the ads. You swipe them away. It’s based on attention not clicking. Not trying to be pedantic but it’s a difference. You can also disable them. I did. Although when I had them on actually got some pretty good deals. Anyways, I just use safari these days and brave lives for YouTube for me to bypass ads and download for offline viewing.
- kibwen 3y agoWho ever said regular advertising isn't a grift? Advertising in general is just psychological manipulation designed to make you sadder and poorer by manufacturing a specific discontent in the victim and then selling them a supposed cure for that discontent.
- rekoil 3y agoThen isn't it better when they're upfront about it?
- kibwen 3y agoIf someone's going to kick me in the groin, then I suppose it's technically better to be up-front about the fact that they're going to kick me in the groin, but in truth I'd just rather not be kicked in the groin at all, thanks.