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A comment on Firefox: The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement with the Web [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Firefox: The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement wit... by wildfire on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:37PM (#18107603)
Are you intentionally unaware that they have been doing this ( C.f. webpayments API)?

Or is this work going to be a complete surprise to you?

I know https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/Web_Payments only mentions 2017 but this stuff has been in play since 2015.

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Re:Firefox: The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement wit... by danShumway on Sunday September 30, 2018 @05:25PM (#18108510)
Web Payments doesn't address micropayments or actual payment authorization. It's just a standard way to collect and submit data.
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Re:Firefox: The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement wit... by jonathansampson on Sunday September 30, 2018 @06:33PM (#18108807)
As great as Web Payments is, there are obvious problems with the system (largely around privacy and anonymity). At Brave we launched a similar system on the BAT (ERC20) token. In Brave Rewards (formerly Brave Payments), users are able to (via ANONIZE2 and ad-hoc VPN connections) anonymously contribute to content creators based on attention distribution. If the browser spent 10% of it's time viewing the content from one particular YouTuber, 10% of the user's monthly BAT budget would go to the content creator. This system leverages the pseudononymous nature of the blockchain to offset the cost of user an ad-blocker. Low friction, privacy, and secure.
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