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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by hjek on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:13PM (#20290614)
Well, that's good! Might give Brave a spin then.

Just curious, what exact sentence(s) from the above links to the Brave website do you see contradicting this claim about "shadow wallets"? (if that's the correct wording)

When I read something like this, it almost sound like they're making wallets (without necessarily asking beforehand):

> If you own a website, or even just a blog or other sub-domain on a hosting site, we’ll create a site wallet for you.[0]

Am I reading that wrong?

[0]: https://brave.com/how-brave-works-for-you/

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by dymk on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:01PM (#20290871)
Yes, they created wallets without asking beforehand, replaced the ads you monetize your site with with their own BAT system, and held funds hostage unless you buy into their system.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by __MatrixMan__ on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:23AM (#20291741)
If I feel you're owed a token, but you don't have a wallet in they currency, what should I do:

- make you a wallet and let you claim it later?

- keep the token?

Neither of these constitute a hostage situation. There's no buying in except the time it takes to move that token to an exchange and turn it into dollars or kgs of cocaine or whatever.

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by hjek on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:09AM (#20292834)
> - make you a wallet and let you claim it later?

> - keep the token?

The problem is pretending to do the first while actually doing the latter (when the token isn't claimed after X days, etc...)

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by __MatrixMan__ on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:01AM (#20293968)
Yeah, I suppose it would be better to just let the tokens pile up in the wallet, the better to later inventivize adoption later.

I still think it's less shady than the concept of advertising in the first place. I have yet to come across a satisfying definition of malware that doesn't also describe web advertising.

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