I find Brave Rewards very egregious. You get lots of BAT and the marketing copy hypes it up immensely without mentioning, anywhere, that you need to provide your SSN and Driver's License to a third-party (Uphold) if you actually, you know, want to cash out. This seems particularly irritating because, let's say you set your browser to show you the max amount of ads for a while. You saved up for a few months, decided y…
Isn't cashing out the tokens as a user sort of pointless anyway? I'm an impoverished student and Brave gives me a way to tip my favorite Youtubers at no cost to myself. They can decide for themselves if they want to sign up and cash out. I think that's really the main intent of the BAT system, nothing deceptive about it. If I wanted to earn trivial amounts of money anonymously, there are plenty of ways to do that.