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Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by ozten »

nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh

Agreed. I recently tried to adopt Brave on iOS. There in-app marketing messages are cringe-worthy[1] and there isn't a way to opt-out as far as I have found.

This seems unethical, as I consider these messages as unwanted advertisements for MLM crypto projects. Brave removes paid ads from the internet, but subjects me to in-app advertisements for pyramid schemes (Sorry, I mean ground floor crypto investment opportunities).

Background: I think BAT is fine and have no problem with it if it is communicated in a user centered way. Trying to fix the web's business model is an interesting experiment.

[1] "Upland: Blockchain Metaverse - Flip virtual properties. Earn UPX. Sell for $. Signup Bonus" https://twitter.com/ozten/status/1459578272094720000

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

tcoff91 wrote: post #17
nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh

Brave was all about crypto from the beginning: Basic Attention Token

Yeah, I always found that...let's say "curious." Programmer/typographer Matthew Butterick summed up my feelings relatively well with "It's just substituting one set of ads for another... for publishers, it's the same old shakedown, but run by Brave instead of Google or Facebook; for users, Brave is still going to collect data about you." That Brendan Eich himself went around crankily responding to anyone who linked to Butterick's article on Twitter added an extra layer of weird.

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by fourstar »

nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh

>downloads and installs crypto browser

OH NO TOO MUCH CRYPTO FOR ME

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by znpy »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #30
sergiotapia wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you switching to? The alternatives is a much worse browser Firefox, a botnet Google Chrome, or some weird chinese spy Opera. What are you going to use?

Depending on your OS, Vivaldi, Microsoft Edge, and other Chromium based browsers, as well as Safari and a few other weirdos using WebKit, all still exist. Beyond that, calling Firefox "much worse" is obviously subjective; there haven't been any credible allegations I'm aware of that Opera is "weird Chinese spy" (sic), and even though they're owned by a Chinese company now they're still headquartered in Norway and hav…

> Microsoft Edge

If one wants to be part of a botnet, why choose the low-quality one? One might as well use google chrome.

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by rattlesnakedave »

nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh

This kind of comment strikes me as nonproductive. HN seems majority anti-crypto and anti-NFT, and that’s fine, but when every crypto adjacent thread winds up littered with these kinds of comments (not addressing the feature specifically, but instead expressing non-pointed distaste for the ecosystem) it seriously degrades the quality of discussion possible.

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by cblconfederate »

I 'm thinking about switching to brave because of these built-in crypto (and thus identity) features, but the thing is , i don't want to block ads because i run ads on some of my own websites. To me, the crypto features of brave are more important than their adblocking , they are the future.
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