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Re: Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

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"Fighting for privacy" and third-party ads do not belong in the same sentence.

While I don’t like Brave, from what I’ve read the ads are decided on locally, so no information is sent to the advertiser. Again, this is what I’ve heard.

Yes, perfect. I absolutely want to download ALL ads instead of NO ads.

Re: Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

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Users in general. We can't track Brave users because it blocks Google Analytics.

>We can't track Brave users because it blocks Google Analytics. Isn't it possible to somehow look at user agents and do a raw count with some JS?

Brave uses the Chrome User Agent.

Re: Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

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> 10 cents a day for a bit under a million monthly users To clarify, do you mean a million monthly Brave users? Or just a million monthly users in general? 10 cents a day might actually be a lot if you were only getting one or two Brave users a month.

Users in general. We can't track Brave users because it blocks Google Analytics.

Looks like you are too stupid to look into server logs

Re: Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

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"as much as" just means one or more people have really expensive mobile internet and visit ad-heavy sites. It's not really saying much. My entire phone bill is ~half that.

They say "the average user".

True. It doesn't make sense. "Average" is in aggregate, but "as much as" is a single maximum.

Re: Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

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sure you can. easily done with basic server side tracking by parsing the User-Agent header. you should be logging this any way in some kind of access log.

Their User-Agent is indistinguishable from Chrome, on purpose so I don't think you can just rely on that

Well, if it's Chrome and is untrackable, then it's Brave, easy.

Re: Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

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So blockchain.com is breaking the law by not asking all their customers to upload their government ID and a selfie in order to withdraw the crypto they have received to a private wallet?

Blockchain.com's privacy policy states that, for anti-money laundering purposes, they'll collect: > Passport and/or national driver’s license or government-issued identification card to verify your identity (from https://www.blockchain.com/legal/privacy ). That's consistent with every other exchange I've used.

10 cents per day money laundering?

Re: Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

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Their User-Agent is indistinguishable from Chrome, on purpose so I don't think you can just rely on that

Well, if it's Chrome and is untrackable, then it's Brave, easy.

That is not how that works. What about actual Chrome with ad blockers then? What about other browsers pretending to be Chrome? There are add-ons that allow you to randomise your user agent, etc, etc.

Re: Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

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Wikipedia hates cryptocurrencies they constantly delete their articles even Bitcoin was denied an article at one point. I feel Wikipedia is violating their own conflict of interest policies with this.

Please back that up with some references. It should be easy by linking to the respective edits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_sanctions/Bl... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=cryptocu... Major cryptocurrencies deleted include Cardano, Chainlink, IOTA and Lisk. Also the Wikipedia admin David Gerard runs an anti cryptocurrency blog.

Re: Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

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We signed up for Brave's setup at PortableApps.com after a few users asked about it. They hold your last 90 days in escrow, so you can find out how successful it is once you sign up. We were looking at around 10 cents a day for a bit under a million monthly users for that timeframe over the summer. And we can't even access it since Brave only works with one crypto provider and they aren't licensed in New York. The pr…

It might interest you that Kraken recently started listing Brave's BAT as well:

https://blog.kraken.com/post/2664/bat-and-waves-trading-star...

Re: Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher

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Well, if it's Chrome and is untrackable, then it's Brave, easy.

That is not how that works. What about actual Chrome with ad blockers then? What about other browsers pretending to be Chrome? There are add-ons that allow you to randomise your user agent, etc, etc.

Does Chrome consult with ad blockers when it reports user activity to google?
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