Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
by unfunco on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:02PM
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Not being able to donate money to someone that has no way of receiving that money seems sketch, but letting money rest in the account of a third-party that has no affiliation with the receiver is fine?
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Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
by joshuamorton on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:31PM
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As far as I can tell, Brave is doing both. The money rests in a third party account that has no affiliation with the receiver, and they have no way of getting to it until they register.
To put it succinctly, I think it's unethical for a platform to accept payment on my behalf without my permission.
(whereas yeah, I don't consider holding money in escrow unethical)
Re:Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
by ltc5505 on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:18PM
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I believe that they meant YouTube allowing you donate without a receiving account is sketchy compared to Patreon, but their sentence placement/spacing was poor an obfuscated their point.