Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by steerablesafe on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:23AM
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> Particularly in the period during which they solicited funds to "help support" blogs and pages by people who had not signed up
IANAL but this sounds like straight up fraud, not just "overstepping the line a little bit".
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by Nursie on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:13AM
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I agree, they seemed to be scraping author images from blogs, and putting messages up saying "You can support the site by sending a tip!"
There's a screenshot here - https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...
Tom Scott was alerted to this when someone sent him a tweet asking if he'd got thte tip, and was annoyed because he had no intention of monetising anything.
It does indeed look fraudulent to me. They have changed the behaviour now IIRC.
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by fuu_dev on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:57AM
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And it only took legal fraud accusation and online media coverage to resolve that. Trustworthy :)
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by plopz on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @09:46AM
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More info on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
They have been at times.
Particularly in the period during which they solicited funds to "help support" blogs and pages by people who had not signed up (and did not want to sign up when they found out about Brave and BAT).
I'm not saying they're all bad, but they've overstepped the bounds of good behaviour at times.