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Re: Brave Browser Adds Bitcoin Payments

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Post by etchalon »

StavrosK wrote: post #58
etchalon wrote: post #55

Who exactly would use this product? You'd have to be someone who doesn't mind ads, but doesn't like bad ones, while also being someone who is willing to pay for content so you do not see ads. More to the point, in what possible universe is there a moral justification for stripping a publisher of the advertising they've selected, only to replace it with your own, and then dictating to the publisher what percentage of…

> establish a mechanism that makes it easy for people to stick a META tag in their header which shows a Bitcoin address for payment remittance Hmm, that's an interesting idea. Has any such tag been standardized or proposed?

Not in a formalized way, as far as I can tell but I'm not the first person to ever mention that idea. I think I've seen a Chrome extension or two which do it.

Re: Brave Browser Adds Bitcoin Payments

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Post by hackuser »

etchalon wrote: post #55

Who exactly would use this product? You'd have to be someone who doesn't mind ads, but doesn't like bad ones, while also being someone who is willing to pay for content so you do not see ads. More to the point, in what possible universe is there a moral justification for stripping a publisher of the advertising they've selected, only to replace it with your own, and then dictating to the publisher what percentage of…

> Who exactly would use this product?

People who value their privacy and don't like to be tracked

Re: Brave Browser Adds Bitcoin Payments

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Post by hackuser »

ultramancool wrote: post #46
mst wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How else would you suggest they maintain the infrastructure without turning the users back into the product?

If the system was designed right any infrastructure could be distributed (put a bitcoin address and a notification URL in your HTML or something dead simple like that) and development could be sponsored by interested parties if needed. There wouldn't be any need for a fee.

> If the system was designed right any infrastructure could be distributed (put a bitcoin address and a notification URL in your HTML or something dead simple like that) and development could be sponsored by interested parties if needed. There wouldn't be any need for a fee.

You need a fee because otherwise nobody will do (or is doing) the work to implement it.

Re: Brave Browser Adds Bitcoin Payments

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Post by etchalon »

hackuser wrote: post #62
etchalon wrote: post #55

Who exactly would use this product? You'd have to be someone who doesn't mind ads, but doesn't like bad ones, while also being someone who is willing to pay for content so you do not see ads. More to the point, in what possible universe is there a moral justification for stripping a publisher of the advertising they've selected, only to replace it with your own, and then dictating to the publisher what percentage of…

> Who exactly would use this product? People who value their privacy and don't like to be tracked

Those people would just use an AdBlocker, in their existing browser and on their mobile device.

Re: Brave Browser Adds Bitcoin Payments

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Post by guroot »

st3v3r wrote: post #57
hackuser wrote: post #42

To the critics: The problem is, how to pay for content while maintaining user control over their privacy? Micropayments seem like a solution, and Brave has found an economical way to implement them. How would you change Brave and, * Still solve the confidentiality problem * Be realistically economical: Everyone gets paid * Earn a profit (not a sin and a good way to make the project sustainable) * Have a technical and…

"* Earn a profit (not a sin and a good way to make the project sustainable)" It is a sin if you're doing it by replacing a publisher's advertising with your own.

I believe the default setting in brave is to block ads not replace. The user has control over what the browser does.

Re: Brave Browser Adds Bitcoin Payments

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Post by whamlastxmas »

hackuser wrote: post #62
etchalon wrote: post #55

Who exactly would use this product? You'd have to be someone who doesn't mind ads, but doesn't like bad ones, while also being someone who is willing to pay for content so you do not see ads. More to the point, in what possible universe is there a moral justification for stripping a publisher of the advertising they've selected, only to replace it with your own, and then dictating to the publisher what percentage of…

> Who exactly would use this product? People who value their privacy and don't like to be tracked

Do you pay with a new, anonymous bitcoin address every single time? Because otherwise this seems like the ultimate tracking tool.
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