Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser

Re:Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser by sneak on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:26PM (#30548500)

> For example, there's a moral dilemma where person A complains about ads and person B says "yeah but how should content producers get paid?" Brave gives us a third option: basic authentication tokens[1].

Changing the currency in which ad revenue is denominated does not fundamentally change the problem.

Handwavey "but tokens!" does not change the fact that looking at a creator's webpage does not generate money. Attention is valuable, but attention itself does not mint tokens, and does not pay creators. Someone has to write a check for an ad placement.

I think that's why I never bought into the whole BAT scheme: they have never once said where the money is supposed to come from. For fiat dollars to reach creator bank accounts so that they can pay their bills, those dollars have to come from somewhere other than ERC20 speculators. Are they expecting ad-replacement advertisers to buy BAT? Are they expecting Brave to subsidize creators directly via BAT payments via BAT appreciation increasing the value of Brave's token holdings when ERC20 speculators buy BAT?

None of it makes sense. Where does the revenue come from?

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Re:Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser by charcircuit on Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:44PM (#30548644)

>Where does the revenue come from?

You can optionally choose to receive ad notifications. Companies pay money to target certain keywords with a notification that links to their website.

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Re:Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser by soundnote on Friday March 04, 2022 @07:51AM (#30553968)

Brave buys the BAT they give users from the open market with a percentage of their normal money ad revenue. So there's always someone to sell the tips you get.

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