Brave Rewards System
Discussions center on Brave browser's opt-in Rewards program using BAT cryptocurrency for ad revenue sharing, with debates over whether it blocks ads, replaces them with its own, or provides a privacy-respecting alternative to traditional advertising.
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A reason for Brave might be if you want to support their BAT ad revenue system.
Instead of showing ads on websites, Brave blocks them and has an option to show you ads from the browser itself. If you elect to see these ads, it will pay the revenue from the ads to the websites you use or designate. It uses a cryptocurrency called BAT as the medium of transferring funds.
Brave Ads are opt-in, you have to click on the triangle in the right end of the url bar and enable Brave Rewards, which includes Ads. You can turn off Ads but keep Rewards on and send tokens you buy, or direct tokens we have in a granting pool, toward your favorite creators. Ads pay 70% of the gross revenue to the user who opts in, and by default these tokens flow back to your creators, anonymously. Neither Brave nor any partners see linkable automated contributions thanks to a ZKP protocol (ano
What's the idea here? I was under the impression that one of the selling points of Brave is that you don't get ads when browsing. Doesn't this go against that?
I've been using Brave rewards, both as a user and a content maker. It's really great, and I feel this may be a reasonable alternative to the invasive trackers+ads we have today.For the uninitiated, Brave lets users opt-in to Brave rewards:- You set your browser to reward content creators with Basic Attention Token (BAT). You set a budget (e.g. 10 BAT/month), and Brave distributes it the sites you use most, e.g. if you watch a particular YouTube channel 30% of your browsing t
You had a bad experience or have a negative view of X, therefore everything associated with X is automatically bad?Brave is a browser. You can use it as a Chrome replacement without Google stuff. Optionally, you can also enable the crypto stuff if you want to see ads and be paid a few bucks for that.Brave Rewards for sites/creators... you don't have to claim the money (I do, eg: https:/
False. please read https://brave.com/intro-to-brave-ads/
Because Brave's business model is to replace the website's advertisements with their own, and give you monopoly money crypto tokens.Just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
doesn't brave just substitute in its own ads with their crypto scheme? that doesn't really strike me as better than just not blocking ads by default
Brave makes money from advertising. Not the same as how other browsers do it, but it requires trust to use Brave too.Referral link controversy is easy to find and relevant to the conversation:“Brave browser CEO apologizes for automatically adding affiliate links to cryptocurrency URLs”https://www.theverge.com/2020&