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Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners by msla on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:55AM (#33263148)
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45

> They added UI to the browser to claim users could pay individual site creators who'd signed up, but had scraped the names and photos of site creators who'd never heard of them. Brave planned to take the payments after they were unclaimed for 90 days. When caught, they claimed the funds were held "in escrow" but later admitted there were holding the funds themselves. Story broke here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners by fastball on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:40AM (#33270886)
Anyone have a screen grab of what this actually looked like? All the articles reference a Tom Scott tweet which is deleted, so not very helpful.