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Brave is doing some of the best anti-Corporatist work in the community right now.
Does Brave still whitelist Facebook trackers? Is there a way to opt-out of Facebook tracking on Brave for iOS? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1108
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They replace other ad network ads with their own ~ads~ crypto currency . They monetize the content of others and don't tell them. If you have a youtube channel, they will swap out ads and collect the ad revenue without telling the channel that they're doing so. I'm not particularly impressed with their business. In fact I'm pretty disgusted with it.
It depends. Are Brave's ads more similar to the banner ads of the old days? If they are not so intrusive and privacy violating like modern ad-networks, that would still be a net win in my opinion. As for the hypothetical youtuber, they are always free to put product ads directly in their videos if they can/want to. However, if they can only make money via abusive 3rd party trackers, that's on them.
I think Brave has the ability to save the web, it has a great model of blocking ads by default, at a lower level than the extensions do so it is much faster. I think Opera had/has this too.
Sure, Brave can block ads, but isn't the browser exploring injecting its own advertisements?
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See https://brave.com/faq/#unclaimed-funds for a description of their current and past policy. Currently: "If a publisher has not verified ownership, then a user’s contributions will be held in reserve inside the browser for 90 days. The browser routinely updates an internal list of all verified publishers to determine whether a property can receive contributions. At the end of the 90 day period, any contributions ma…
That's still terrible. If I'm a Youtube content creator who doesn't want anything to do with Brave, they're still going to remove the ads that I want on my videos to monetize my content, and hold any of the BAT that Brave users contribute to me hostage.
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Citation please.
https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/crypto-news/spotlight/famous-yout... Tom Scott was not happy with Brave. They were collecting ad revenue for Youtubers who had never opted into their platform. He had to go make a stink to their CEO , and finally after lots of pushing back, the CEO ceded that maybe this is not the best thing to do! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
Tom Scott ended up being happy with Brave resolving an early product misstep.
You should really be across an issue - and its resolution - before deciding to use it to cast shade on a software project.
For more reasonable-minded developer folk Eich addressed this again recently on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1139384765700685824
Been using Brave for a while now... maybe 2 years? Have a lot of unused BAT since few sites recognize the payments yet. Once they do, it'll be pretty amazing.
The pop up ads have been activated and I have been receiving the token for clicking, about $8 month worth of BAT. I am hoarding the tokens so that USD value might go up if the token moons together with bitcoin.
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Does Brave still whitelist Facebook trackers? Is there a way to opt-out of Facebook tracking on Brave for iOS? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1108
Yes, trackers are blocked by default, and the Google / Twitter / Facebook login options are in the Brave preferences section.
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Yes, trackers are blocked by default, and the Google / Twitter / Facebook login options are in the Brave preferences section.
Not seeing "login options" in Settings on Brave for iOS, Version 1.9.3 (19.05.22.15)
Perhaps there are tickets in the github repo to add this to mobile builds?
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That's still terrible. If I'm a Youtube content creator who doesn't want anything to do with Brave, they're still going to remove the ads that I want on my videos to monetize my content, and hold any of the BAT that Brave users contribute to me hostage.
Is uBlock terrible?