It's a neat idea, but I feel like users need to be rewarded for it to really take off. Look at Patreon as an example: If you support someone there, they will often deliver rewards every month and payment is tied to the reward. This straightforward implementation ignores some of the privacy ideas, but might be a starting point: If a site notices I'm using a Brave-compliant browser, it tells me that I can unlock some n…
Publishers hate Brave though: they destroy much of the value those impressions have and then take a cut. Or at least they hate the idea of Brave, I doubt they take it seriously enough to really hate it. Brave will probably be resigned to the software scrap heap after this funding round runs out.
This is a totally new option for people who dont want to see ads.
Publishers who hate this plan show similar behavior to tobacco companies in the 1980s. They have a profitable, entrenched market and don't want to yield one bit of it.