Re:Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests
by creato on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:30PM
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> but reading the Wikipedia article they seem to have a business model of replacing website adverts with their own. Which doesn't seem all that ethical.
It seems blindingly obvious that Brave/BAT is in seriously dangerous legal territory. I would be that very close to 0% of the money transferred by BATs has made it to the "rightful" owners, where rightful is "where people paying BATs thought they were going".
If this scheme ever gets any serious attention, positive or negative, it's going to be a spectacular implosion.
https://twitter.com/galkowski_t/status/1074703403274698763
It seems blindingly obvious that Brave/BAT is in seriously dangerous legal territory. I would be that very close to 0% of the money transferred by BATs has made it to the "rightful" owners, where rightful is "where people paying BATs thought they were going".
If this scheme ever gets any serious attention, positive or negative, it's going to be a spectacular implosion.