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by justsee 7y ago
Actually that's not true. An earlier version of the browser let early adopter users direct where Brave's own marketing budget of BAT tokens was sent to, including sites that hadn't yet signed up. If those sites didn't si
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by justsee 7y ago
They publicised their research here (20%-40% battery savings on Android) : https://brave.com/brave-saves-batteries/
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by justsee 7y ago
There's no bait and switch here. Ads are opt-in and for many of us aren't the most interesting aspect of baking a digital wallet right into the browser.
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by justsee 7y ago
It's faster, more secure, and uses less battery among other things. You can read a lot more detail within the research section of their site [1]. My previous browser setup was Firefox Dev Edition with uBlock origin, but Brave is just a
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by justsee 7y ago
I think the privacy crowd drawn to Brave couldn't care less what the (current) digital advertising industry wants. Anyone who's been involved in the current ad-tech industry knows it's a total tire fire of fraud, technical in
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by justsee 7y ago
Unlikely. The economics, fraud analysis, requirement to go through KYC / AML hoops to extract and convert to fiat would mean it's not a viable mechanism to enrich yourself.
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by justsee 7y ago
Which other browser has done this?
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by justsee 7y ago
Integrating a digital wallet into a browser elevates money to a first-class citizen on the web. That changes everything about microtransactions. I now have one location to top up and manage my wallet and can effortlessly pay for content acr
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by justsee 7y ago
I'd say good luck with that. To acquire BAT at scale fraudulently from rewards will likely cost more than it's worth, and to convert it into fiat will require going through KYC / AML processes AND avoiding being flagged by Br
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by justsee 7y ago
Actually people can buy and sell BAT. They just can't convert any BAT rewarded for ad participation into fiat right now. It's on the roadmap though, but even then you'll have to go through KYC AML providers so there'll b
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by justsee 7y ago
Most people are sold on Brave due to privacy / speed / battery life. Baking a transactional layer into the browser allows things like rewards for ad participation, but I think microtransactions to pay for gated content will be the
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by justsee 7y ago
> While they still block ads, they're deciding which ads they want to block now based on how sponsors compensate them Not sure what your motivation is here in asserting something which is completely false. Ads are blocked by default
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by justsee 8y ago
Why get tired of correct usage of a term? You can simply reduce you complaint from ‘hate speech’ and ‘violent speech’ to ‘speech’ to reveal the nuanced perspective of grey thinkers. Dismissing the societal effect of censorship by dominant p
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by justsee 8y ago
Absolutely. In the political sphere: the current system allows both politicians and news publications to play access games for favourable coverage as you've described. One system design that is worth exploring: randomised access by acc
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by justsee 8y ago
I only recommend Brave nowadays and tbh it's an easy sell because it's: familiar as it uses Chromium and so compatible with Chrome plugins, much faster than Chrome, and uses a lot less battery compared to other browsers (particula
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by justsee 8y ago
It's great to see the team move quickly to resolve the UI / UX issues that Tom Scott was rightly upset about. I've switched from Firefox to Brave due to their stronger stance against Surveillance Capitalism, and as someone wh
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Brave Rewards Update(brave.com)
13 points by justsee 8y ago|1 comments
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by justsee 8y ago
Why would moderators intervene on an important, popular discussion like this? https://twitter.com/justsee/status/1072766976194301952 Calling dang?
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by justsee 8y ago
This is exactly what has me excited about the new content model for the web Eich proposes. I just commented in another thread [1] but essentially: 1. enable donations / tips / subscriptions to sites using a browser-native crypto w
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by justsee 8y ago
Even better is that it's optional, so those of us who don't want to see any ads but still want to support sites are in a position to tip / donate / potentially subscribe to sites across the web using a browser-native c
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by justsee 8y ago
I just deleted Chrome, and switched to Brave as my full-time personal browser: faster, more secure, and based on Chromium so full extension support[1]. I still use and support Firefox for development purposes, and am wedded to containers, b
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by justsee 8y ago
Eich's Brave browser and BAT token ecosystem is the only really exciting ICO project in the space at this stage (from my perspective). While only ~5 million monthly active users that's a) still significant in the crypto (but not b
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by justsee 8y ago
There seems to be a lot of concern trolling over democracy and Western freedoms which soberly urge us to not be so concerned with democracy and Western freedoms and instead accept new, deeper forms of censorship and greater collaboration be
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Breaking US Encryption: The Australian Test Case(blog.dogooder.co)
19 points by justsee 8y ago|14 comments
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by justsee 8y ago
In a Next.js + Now context you'd use the path alias feature [1] of now in production, using a rules.json file to do the route mappings to other microservices or external URLs. In development you'd use micro-proxy [2] and define a
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by justsee 8y ago
The key example justifying the need for this bill is as follows: > A high risk Registered Sex Offender (RSO) was placed on the register for raping a 16 year old female, served nine years imprisonment and is now monitored by Corrections v
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by justsee 8y ago
I don't think so - the announcement from Brave mentions full extension API support with the move from Muon to Chromium: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/
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by justsee 8y ago
Yes they're switching to a full Chromium base so all Chrome extensions will be compatible. ETA for releasable build is Sept 7 according to: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/milestone/3
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by justsee 9y ago
Actually Cambridge Analytica licensed the data from GSR, according to their press release from earlier this week [1]. > A research company (GSR) licensed the data to us, which they legally obtained via a tool provided by Facebook. Hundr
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by justsee 9y ago
David Foster Wallace's classic piece 'Consider The Lobster' [1] in Gourmet magazine is a fine piece of writing exploring many of these questions in the context of visiting the Maine Lobster festival: Originally published in

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