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lead what? https://archive.is/W0k4j https://archive.is/W0k4j (disclaimer: people remember how sketchy Brave is)

• someotherperson 9mo ago
  That was just a concept, it never made it to a live build AFAIK. What they should have done instead is just take hundreds of millions of dollars from Google, like a non-sketchy browser.
• fenwick67 9mo ago
  Don't forget when they took donations on behalf of other websites and kept the money unless the operator went to the "escrow account" to collect it
  • ikekkdcjkfke 9mo ago
    Jesus dont you see they are trying atleast an alternative to non consensual anal probes by other ad companies?
  • BrendanEich 9mo ago
    The grants came from our token fund, not users' tokens (no way to buy BAT then). The issue which I found out about late, and fixed right away, was infringing on right to publicity, nothing to do with donations from users' own tokens.
• bsclifton 9mo ago
  Already shared, but that (what you linked to) was a proposal and no deliverable was ever publicly released. A simple prototype was made and tested by a limited number of employees - instead of showing an ad, it would show a picture of a mustachioed man as a placeholder. That silly picture would be replaced with real code if the idea panned out. It didn't. The idea and the code was canned before I joined Brave and I've been here for almost 10 years (I joined August 2016). Disclaimer in case it's not obvious: I am a Brave employee