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I want to like the idea of Brave but have a hard time seeing this project taking off. It requires buy-in both from publishers, who make more money from ads, and from visitors, who probably don't want to spend money, configure a payment option, or switch from their current browser. Good idea for a cross-browser plugin, but an entire browser?

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Ya, agreed. I'd much rather have this built into my ad blocker extension. IE, I could configure a wallet there which I could fund and they could send micro-payments based on the ads I block.

(sorta like Google's contributor but more open / distributed)

Yup. I see no reason why this could not be implemented as a WebExtension (which will be compatible with Chrome/FF/Edge). Perhaps performance would suffer a bit relative to native. Having a synced history between Chrome devices, is enough reason for me to not switch browsers, let alone stored form inputs.

Having a general purpose wallet built into the browser would be quite interesting. Think 1 cent Bitcoin paywalls.

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