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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by fenwick67 on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:16PM (#46507575)
Don't forget when they took donations on behalf of other websites and kept the money unless the operator went to the "escrow account" to collect it
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by ikekkdcjkfke on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @09:10AM (#46512443)
Jesus dont you see they are trying atleast an alternative to non consensual anal probes by other ad companies?
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by BrendanEich on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:59PM (#46516851)
The grants came from our token fund, not users' tokens (no way to buy BAT then).

The issue which I found out about late, and fixed right away, was infringing on right to publicity, nothing to do with donations from users' own tokens.

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