Quote: (08-02-2016 08:33 AM)Thomas the Rhymer Wrote:
In the long term, they plan on making you pay a monthly subscription for using Brave.
Unless you allow Brave to show ads. In which case you allegedly share 'anonymous' info about yourself and then you get to see targeted ads specifically designed not to slow down your internet browsing.
So they want you either to pay with money or pay with your data. Their long term plan is not to provide ad-free internet, rather they are trying to build up their own alternative ad infrastructure.
Their long term diabolical plan to make you pay for using a web browser is detailed here:
https://blog.brave.com/braves-payment-sp...per-input/
I'm not an expert on the subject by any means, but the post you just linked to claims they will pay YOU, the user, when you allow it to show ads. And the ads you see will be "replacement ads".
You only pay if you want to see no ads whatsoever.
"For ad-replacement mode, once an ad campaign is reconciled and our advertising partners pay us, the total views from the ad-replacement users are aggregated into a weighted list for publishers. From the total payment, our ad-matching partner takes a share (15%), we take our share (15%), we reserve the user revenue share of the total payment (15%) for ad-replacement users, and the remaining amount is allocated to the publishers (e.g., 55%). The payment to each publisher is then calculated using the weighted-ratio method. In order to enhance privacy, the payment to each ad-replacement user is calculated independently of the actual ad impressions served to that user – Brave Software does not keep track of which users were served which impressions.
So, what happens when you're in ad-replacement mode? The Brave Ledger makes a transfer of the user revenue share to your Brave wallet! You have two choices: you can "donate" the funds to your favorite sites (this is the automated default); or you can transfer the funds to another Bitcoin wallet and spend them yourself. However, in order to take money out of the system, Anti-money laundering (AML) and Know your customer (KYC) regulations require that Brave Software verifies your identity. If you choose to verify your identity, then you'll need to demonstrate control of a phone number and an email address. Even so, there will be no way for Brave Software to correlate your browsing history with payments to your wallet."
Quote: (08-02-2016 08:39 AM)Il Bersagliere Wrote:
And this is why I prefer my software open-source. I was just raving about the browser to a buddy of mine of Skype.
Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.
Brave is open source, as far as I know. That's what it says on their website and that's what it's been reported as.