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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by mintplant on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:25PM (#20290343)
> replacing ads

> They'll s/page_ads/brave_ads/

My point was that this literally does not happen. Brave does not insert ads into pages, ever, it only removes them. I'll admit I'm skeptical of the whole cryto-currency model, too, but I try to keep my points factually accurate.

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by sp332 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:40PM (#20290771)
They got a ton of attention when they first launched for their idea of replacing ads. See point two on this archive from early 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20170129165028/https://www.brave... Now they have a disclaimer at the top https://www.brave.com/about_ad_replacement.html but honestly, until today I thought they were still doing it.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by __MatrixMan__ on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:29AM (#20291763)
They aren't. The brave ads appear as a system notification at fixed intervals whether or not you're browsing. They're as disconnected from your browsing activity as they could possibly be.

The only connection is that your browsing activity determines how much each content provider is owed.

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