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Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube by harryh on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:25AM (#15723353)
Someone needs to re-read the penny gap.

People HATE being nickel and dimed. Exactly zero people want to have to think to themselves "is this news article worth 5 cents?" every time they load a web page.

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Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube by joshuamorton on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:45AM (#15723549)
Right, which is why patreon works, and 10c per pageview doesn't.
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Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube by haltingthoughts on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:59AM (#15723696)
But do they hate it less than ads?

If you pay for mobile service per GB then you already have this problem.

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