What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

Re:What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first ... by xgulfie on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:50AM (#20807819)

Brave has a history of acting shady.

For a while they would take BAT "donations" for any website, and would just keep them unless the site owner signed up to receive them. This stopped a few months ago.

The whole monetization model of replacing a site's ads with their own is questionable.

The whole BAT thing seems like a scam, they offer ways to buy them but no way to sell them.

Really anything that uses a cryptocurrency for funding has that "con stink".

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Re:What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first ... by alibert on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:26AM (#20808384)

"The whole monetization model of replacing a site's ads with their own is questionable."

Just to be more concise, they are not exactly "replacing" ads on the site. The built-in adblocker remove all ads irrelevant of the sites and if you enable Brave Ads (the coin thing, opt in), you get up to 5 per hour (configurable) OS native notification. The notification contains a text ad with a link. Even if you don't click on the notification, you get the coin.

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Re:What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first ... by BrendanEich on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:39PM (#20812413)

We are not replacing ads on any site right now, and we won't do it without the publisher as partner, getting 70% of the gross revenue.

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Re:What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first ... by _corym on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:17PM (#20811307)

You can sell BAT via any crypto exchange or website. Coinbase, Uphold, Binance, etc. You can even choose to have BAT automatically convert to USD, Euro, etc.

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