Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
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Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#2Edit: title was changed, I am not Tom Scott
I am not too familiar with how Brave and BAT (Brave Attention Token), so please chime in. Here's how Brave describes the BAT YouTube donations system: https://basicattentiontoken.org/brave-expands-basic-attentio...
From my understanding, users of the Brave Browser select which YouTubers to donate to, but they don't know whether the channels have opted in to receive donations? What does Brave do with unclaimed donations? Someone pointed out this concern in an earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15730661
Furthermore, OP said that they might not be following GDPR due to collection of YouTuber data (to assign donations). IANAL, anyone know how compliant this is?
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#3Edit: title was changed, I am not Tom Scott I am not too familiar with how Brave and BAT (Brave Attention Token), so please chime in. Here's how Brave describes the BAT YouTube donations system: https://basicattentiontoken.org/brave-expands-basic-attentio... From my understanding, users of the Brave Browser select which YouTubers to donate to, but they don't know whether the channels have opted in to receive donation…
This is so weird, I keep meaning to check out the brave browser but knowing it's tied into cryptocoin nonsense drops my interest level to zero.
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#4that does sound brave
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#5Who is me?
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#6Brave is using the "opt-out" method used by tip4commit in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969
From the comments there, a lot of projects dealt with that one by acting against such an abuse of their trademarks.
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#7Brendan Eich answers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1076187316748615680
basically he plans to keep it working the way it works now, "opt out" and all - he's confident this is a completely legal way to work
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#8Who is me?
Tom Scott, an educational YouTuber. (I am not him, the title was changed by a mod I think)
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#9I'd been really loving Brave and using it as my daily driver for a few months now, until that I noticed that little "Brave Ads" icon at the end of the address bar. That's when I realized their entire business model is just in the usurpation of existing Google ad revenue, dressed up with "privacy concerns" for the good PR. This sent me on a journey to find a really solid, free, Chromium based browser that is totally de-Googled, which seems absolutely impossible. I've tacitly settled on Vivaldi, but it's just impossible to really know if they are trustworthy as a company in the long run. Ultimately I feel like I can only trust a browser who's entire build process is open source at this point.
Re: Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
#10I'd been really loving Brave and using it as my daily driver for a few months now, until that I noticed that little "Brave Ads" icon at the end of the address bar. That's when I realized their entire business model is just in the usurpation of existing Google ad revenue, dressed up with "privacy concerns" for the good PR. This sent me on a journey to find a really solid, free, Chromium based browser that is totally d…
Honest question. Why not Firefox? What are your concerns with it?