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Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by nostrademons on Friday December 06, 2019 @07:28PM (#21727532)
So turn off ads. The whole point of a market is that people who don't think whatever you're doing is worth the price you're getting don't have to do it, while those who think that it is worth it get the rewards. By turning off ads you're raising the market price of BAT ever so slightly so that those of us who don't mind the ads get paid more for it.
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Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by noxer on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:23PM (#21727800)
If you look at this from economic point of view, watching ads on its own does zero value creation. The People who get paid for it must (on average) spend way more than what they got on the advertise products else this is unsustainable.
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Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by nostrademons on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:36PM (#21728291)
That's not really true. Ads give people the opportunity to learn about products they wouldn't otherwise know about. If the new products are better, economic value is created. If they aren't, no transaction occurs and nobody is worse off, except for the attention spent on ads, which is what BAT is trying to price.
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