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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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