Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
by decentralised on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:07AM
(#15723133)
How about this, a system will show you ads and you can chose to skip or stop if you don't like them. In any case for however many seconds you endured, you get paid.
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Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
by hiq on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:12AM
(#15723197)
Sounds interesting, but my threshold is probably too high, and I would skip most of them. When was the last time you enjoyed watching an ad? I can't remember, but it's rarely the case. If you combine this with the chance that you are the target of the ads, it's pretty low.
Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
by decentralised on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:24AM
(#15723346)
I've invested in BAT during their ICO and today I feel like I'm hustling my investment a little bit. :-)
I mostly use Brave on my phone because it makes the browsing experience faster and removes most ads by default. I won't change to another browser on the iPhone anytime soon. Having said this, I haven't used the payments feature outside of web3 (Ethereum DApps).
I don't watch ads with any interest or attention in general, but I often have Youtube playing some live concert on the background while I work and ads cut midway forcing me to change tabs so I can skip them. The idea that instead of breaking my concentration to stop an add playing I can simply let them and that _that_ could be a little money generating activity seems appealing.
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Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
by PKop on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:21PM
(#15723906)
Safari with content blockers does this as well.. perhaps with better performance?
Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
by rplnt on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:21PM
(#15725665)
I don't want to watch any ads. Anywhere, ever.
Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
by JetSpiegel on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:18PM
(#15725647)
How is that a choice if it shows ads by default?
By the time you skip the ad, it already broke the flow of the content.
Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
by decentralised on Saturday November 18, 2017 @01:42AM
(#15728039)
I was comparing different browsers.