Re:Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
by waynesonfire on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:22PM
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Yeah, this is sort of a deal breaker. Another response to my original comment was a link to Flattr and from wikipedia it's a site "that records which websites they frequent and shares this data with Flattr" -- no thanks.
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
by 0-_-0 on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:28PM
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Why do you say Brave tracks you?
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
by GekkePrutser on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:05PM
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Not Brave itself, but the sites that you visit don't have to give up tracking per se (for participating users, of course). They should have to in order to participate IMO.
Brave will block tracking to some extent but we know it's not perfect.
Personally I don't like them because these things don't normally opt you out of ad tracking as well. When I pay I want to be the customer and not be tracked. I also don't want to give any personal details. They know nothing about me when I buy a newspaper in the shop. It should be like this :)