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Re:Brave Isn't Bad by throwGuardian on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @12:17AM (#21876978)
Disclaimer: not associated with brave in any way.

Facts:

1. Brave's tracking degree is little to none, compared to Google/Microsoft(edge).

2. Brave is the only browser that splits ad revenue with the user, and pays creators a higher percentage, compared to the AdSenses of the world. On top of that, brave ads aren't distracting, are generally of high quality and non intrusive to the browsing experience.

I've personally earned more than $50 in aggregate this year using brave, and tipped a 100% of that to sites and content I consume often. Both the creators and I are happy costumers of brave.

Re:Brave Isn't Bad by saagarjha on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @12:56AM (#21877099)
> On top of that, brave ads aren't distracting, are generally of high quality and non intrusive to the browsing experience.

Native notifications are incredibly distracting and intrusive.

Re:Brave Isn't Bad by sheogorath on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @07:48AM (#21878294)
The problem with brave is that it takes away creators freedom of choice when it comes to revenue for their content. It's nicely summed up in this article:

https://practicaltypography.com/the-cowardice-of-brave.html

TL;DR: Creators have to sign-up to brave's BAT system in order to get revenue for ads that Brave embeds on the creator's website. And even then there is a competition upon creators for users to spend money on them which is not correclating with the time users spend on creator's content.

Re:Brave Isn't Bad by pricci on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:39PM (#21879830)
The thing is that, in my experience, Brave does not embeds ads on the creator's page. It shows system alerts with the ads.
Re:Brave Isn't Bad by Proven on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:56AM (#21879271)
sheogorath is right - Brave doesn't pay creators anything unless they enter a business relationship with them, but it nevertheless collects that revenue