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Re:Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser by soared on Friday March 04, 2022 @01:10PM (#30558234)
None of your examples are stealing, I am agreeing with you. Ad blocking is not stealing.

Replacing ads that would pay the publisher, but now instead pay somebody else is stealing.

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Re:Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser by skaul on Friday March 04, 2022 @05:54PM (#30561722)
(disclaimer: I work for Brave) Just to be clear, no ads are "replaced" when a user opts-in to seeing Brave ads.

Ads and trackers are blocked on all websites by default when you use Brave. IF a user opts-in to viewing Brave ads, THEN they see the ads as notifications that are in Brave's ad inventory and that line up with their interests. This ad matching to users' interests is all done on-device - Brave or advertisers never learn anything about which ad a user saw or what their interests are.

This is core to the privacy model of Brave ads. You can read more here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Security-and-pri...

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