Re:Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser
by veidr on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:07PM
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Well, just in the sense that I don't see how it is going to possibly work, without radical revision/pivot. Maybe it will, though; I am kind of rooting for them.
But when I tried it, the ads Brave served were much worse than banner ads in a web page — they were super-intrusive system notifications, with ad payloads in them. I can't imagine any significant number of users ever using Brave with those ads enabled.
Likewise, I have never seen a website that is willing to accept my BAT crypto, other than the one posted in this thread.
Perhaps the second point (micropayments to authors) is not critical to their model, though.
The coin works such that Brave buys BAT with a percentage of their normal money ad revenue, distribute it to users who can then use that to tip content creators with Brave's tipping service. Content creators can then sell BAT for real money, and there's always someone buying, namely Brave. It's pretty much the least scammy crypto coin I've come across.