lukemulks

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   by lukemulks 5y ago

   You've managed to bring better results than the leading private search engine, with a 1-person operation. You're a giant. Sad to see Runnaroo dim the lights, but appreciate the experience had with it over the past year!
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   by lukemulks 7y ago

   Glad it was helpful.
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   by lukemulks 7y ago

   (Brave employee here) We block 3rd party ads and tracking, that collect user data, often without their knowledge or consent. Brave Ads are disabled by default, to ensure that no one sees ads that is not interested in viewing ads. This prov
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   by lukemulks 7y ago

   (Brave employee) The BAT is used for more than contributions. The token has a distinct use case as the unit of account for attention and services on the platform. https://basicattentiontoken.org/faq/#representation
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   by lukemulks 7y ago

   https://basicattentiontoken.org/faq/#why-not-bitcoin
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   by lukemulks 7y ago

   The catalog contains edge-cached URLs and metadata for the ads. The size remains small, as we're not compressing down images, rich media, video or other assets in the catalog. (I work at Brave, and am on the team bringing the ad platfo
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   by lukemulks 9y ago

   There are a few pieces to this (I work at Brave and am on the BAT project). The BAT project has set aside 300M BATs in the User Growth Pool, which will be used to award users that opt-in to the BAT integration with BATs. Amounts in the user
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   by lukemulks 9y ago

   Brave is not forcing anyone to pay for anything (I work at Brave and on the BAT project). Brave is, and will be free to use. BAT will be opt-in, and users will not be required to pay for anything. Users that opt-in when BAT ads become integ