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We have never and will never "replace third party ads". At this point, repeating this easily disproven story just calls your reliability into question. https:/
by BrendanEich 2y ago
We have never and will never "replace third party ads". At this point, repeating this easily disproven story just calls your reliability into question.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42380899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42380899
We talked to Tony Haile and Scroll before they exited. I asked him how selling (enterprise pre-sales and sales) to publishers was going. Tony said "it's like stabbing yourself in the eye a different way each day".
Publishers do not want to share subscriber data, period full stop. They also hate ad blockers. For Brave, we had to make a primal choice: user-first means blocking ads and trackers, not trying to serve publishers too. House divided will fall, and this kind of conflict of interest between fake blockers who sell whitelisting or otherwise cater to big publishers has hurt Eyeo GmbH among others famous cases.