Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by ObsoleteNerd on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:10PM (#18737550)

I was interested in Brave after hearing it mentioned here a fair bit, for innovating new ways for creators to get paid... after this story though? Knowing they effectively scam users out of money under the pretense of it really being the creator? That's fraud as far as I'm concerned (maybe not legally, but to me it's a con, and scummy).

Interest has dropped to 0, and they go to my shitlist with all the other crytpo-scam stuff prevalent these days.

Edit: Now that I've seen the screenshots of just how blatantly Brave pretends the creator has a profile and actively set this up, this is absolutely fraud. From further down in the comments of OPs original link: https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1076221401353207808

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Re:Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my... by brandnewlow on Saturday December 22, 2018 @11:51PM (#18744504)

We agree the UI in that screenshot tells the wrong story. It doesn't represent what we're trying to do so we're shipping a bunch of changes tomorrow that we hope will fix things: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

We'd love another shot at winning your interest. Thanks for caring about finding new ways to get creators paid.

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