It's as if Brave is performance art put on by Mozilla's advertising department.
he updated the article and quoted you in it :D
Nice catch, wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
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I use it on desktop primarily and have earned ~$40usd with the rewards program so far. You can import your Chrome account and use chrome extensions in Brave, it's basically a faster version of Chrome to me.
You earned that in how long?
Since late last year when I activated Brave Rewards (make sure to opt-out of auto-contributions to keep your BAT)
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Agreed, I haven't seen or heard anything off kilter with Firefox in a very very long time and they have always been on the forefront of privacy and development features.
Well, there was the DNS-over-HTTPS thing and the Mr. Robot thing, and the Pocket thing and ... they're not perfect. However, I've been using Firefox as my primary browser for about five years and have been very happy with it -- especially post Quantum. I can't even remember the last time I've had to switch to Chromium because something wasn't working.
I am personally a fan of the DNS-Over-HTTPS experiment,I think it has a lot of benefits and hope it becomes standard.
The pocket thing isn't that bad, it's legitimately just a free cloud sync bookmarking service that you can use, or not. It's basically an extension of FF Sync, and no one has problems with that.
The Mr Robot plugin catastrophe was abhorrent, I certainly won't deny that.
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#384I'm surprised people are surprised by this. Brave have said from the beginning that this is how their business model works. What I'm even more surprised about is that Brave has gotten any traction at all, as there is really no reason to use it instead of a normal browser with regular ad blockers.
Its goal was to create a sustainable alternative to ads, not just block them. I haven't been keeping up with it so I don't know how successful that's been, but it's a noble task that nobody else is really working on.
Plenty of people and dozens of companies have worked on similar things and continue to this day.
Brave is not an alternative to ads. They are just an ad network that replaces the ads on the page with their own, and then splits some of the money with you instead of sending it all to the publisher.
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It's more profound than that; as I've pointed out on HN a few times, despite what you may think, advertisers don't make that much from you. The problem with the whole "pay people to watch ads" or "share the ad profits with people" plan is that there isn't anywhere near enough money in advertising to make it worth while. We're collectively selling out our social media for an outrage factory, our entire news industry f…
Perhaps such platforms aren't necessarily about selling advertising. Gold mine for big data analytics though!
The numbers I made come from basic division on the money made by Facebook. No matter how they make it, unless they're completely hiding it from Wall Street, my numbers account for it.
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> they're not doing anything illegal or dangerous The words "dishonest" and "rent-seeking" come to mind. Also, it seems that using affiliate links without disclosure might actually be illegal.
Brave is really not solving any problem. People that truly want ads removed so they don’t get tracked or bothered, should simply install Firefox. It’s a brilliant browser regardless, and being developed and supported by a non for profit with a proven track record is what makes it trustworthy. Brave can’t compete with that and Eich is not somebody anyone should rally behind in respect to ethical choices, or moral exam…
"non for profit with a proven track record" is not how I would describe mozilla.
> His personal choices to support legislation that will deny basic human rights from the LGBTQ community is a BIG clue.
Marriage is not a human right.
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Brave is really not solving any problem. People that truly want ads removed so they don’t get tracked or bothered, should simply install Firefox. It’s a brilliant browser regardless, and being developed and supported by a non for profit with a proven track record is what makes it trustworthy. Brave can’t compete with that and Eich is not somebody anyone should rally behind in respect to ethical choices, or moral exam…
"non for profit with a proven track record" is not how I would describe mozilla. > His personal choices to support legislation that will deny basic human rights from the LGBTQ community is a BIG clue. Marriage is not a human right.
> Marriage is not a human right.
Even if it wasn't (the UDHR says it is, and the US Supreme Court has for quite some time held it to be a fundamental right), equal protection of the laws is also widely held to be.
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"non for profit with a proven track record" is not how I would describe mozilla. > His personal choices to support legislation that will deny basic human rights from the LGBTQ community is a BIG clue. Marriage is not a human right.
> Marriage is not a human right. Even if it wasn't (the UDHR says it is, and the US Supreme Court has for quite some time held it to be a fundamental right), equal protection of the laws is also widely held to be.
The UDPR also says that it is your right to be arrested in order to be educated (oh hey, it is a human right for the detainees at the Xinjiang camps to be re-educated!). I can't consider this document as anything other than a joke.
> equal protection of the laws is also widely held to be
I am not against equal opportunity for both homosexual and heterosexual couples, rather, I am just anti-marriage. I think that it would be better to just remove any government support or acknowledgement of heterosexual marriage rather than make homosexual marriage official.
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#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Marriage is not a human right. Even if it wasn't (the UDHR says it is, and the US Supreme Court has for quite some time held it to be a fundamental right), equal protection of the laws is also widely held to be.
The UDPR also says that it is your right to be arrested in order to be educated (oh hey, it is a human right for the detainees at the Xinjiang camps to be re-educated!). I can't consider this document as anything other than a joke. > equal protection of the laws is also widely held to be I am not against equal opportunity for both homosexual and heterosexual couples, rather, I am just anti-marriage. I think that it w…
> The UDPR also says that it is your right to be arrested in order to be educated
Not sure what the UDPR is, but the UDHR, which I referenced, certainly does not.
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#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
The UDPR also says that it is your right to be arrested in order to be educated (oh hey, it is a human right for the detainees at the Xinjiang camps to be re-educated!). I can't consider this document as anything other than a joke. > equal protection of the laws is also widely held to be I am not against equal opportunity for both homosexual and heterosexual couples, rather, I am just anti-marriage. I think that it w…
> The UDPR also says that it is your right to be arrested in order to be educated Not sure what the UDPR is, but the UDHR, which I referenced, certainly does not.
I meant UDHR. Check article 26.