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Re:Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior by chasil on Saturday December 07, 2024 @06:21PM (#42353644)
As I understand it, Brave added a "donate to lobste.rs" link when viewed in their browser, and then kept all the money.

If you are using Brave, confirm any donation (and maybe anything else involving money) in another browser.

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Re:Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior by BrendanEich on Saturday December 07, 2024 @09:32PM (#42354581)
"As I understand it" is not true, but I'm curious whether you heard it from a Lobste.rs principal, or just some echo chamber spinning stories against us.

All the tokens in that late 2018 came from our user growth pool — we never misappropriate any user-bought BAT.

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Re:Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior by unsnap_biceps on Sunday December 08, 2024 @01:04AM (#42355291)
Just to be clear, are you saying that 100% of every BAT token that was pooled for a site has been distributed to the intended site? Or are you saying that only 100% of every BAT token that was purchased directly by an end user has been distributed to the intended site?

Is there a page somewhere with the information on the tokens for each site and their payouts status?

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Re:Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior by BrendanEich on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @12:50PM (#42379228)
At that time we had no way for users to buy BAT they sent — it was all from our grant pool.

In any event, a creator might not sign or could fail to collect, so those grants came back to us after a 90 day timeout if I recall correctly.

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Re:Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior by BrendanEich on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:02AM (#42384959)
> Is there a page

https://bravebat.info/

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