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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by amelius on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:14AM (#20293395)
The problem is that if you start paying content creators, then you're giving data to another party, i.e. your bank.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by urza on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:14AM (#20294059)
Alternatives based on peer-to-peer (micro)payments are already staring to emerge, e.g. this guys is building patreon alternative based on Lightning Network (Bitcoin's second layer able to handle millions of tx per seconds for negligible fee):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/aacw3h/im_creating...

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by Galaxeblaffer on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:42AM (#20293526)
depends.. Brave has actually got it's own token that could be used to pay creators, not sure how the transactions are logged though but i'd imagine that you can privately pay without being tracked
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by amelius on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:48AM (#20293564)
Yes, but there's always a third party that can in theory collect all your data.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by Ajedi32 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:20AM (#20294099)
Who? I'm not really familiar with how Brave does it, but there are plenty of cryptocurrencies where that's definitely _not_ the case.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by amelius on Thursday June 27, 2019 @11:58AM (#20295596)
It's still not clear whether untrackable cryptocurrencies will be allowed by regulators.
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