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Comment by kylehotchkiss | Hacker News Reader

Brave with the various crypto extensions removed is a very nice alternative to Chrome.

Brave's (privacy-respecting) ad notifications are off by default. But I would encourage you to reconsider these features, unless (or even if) you support content creators out of your own pocket. Sponsored Images, for instance, is a high-quality image that appears on every 4th new tab. 70% of the associated revenue goes into your wallet, which can then automatically flow out to the verified sites and properties you visit throughout the month. It's a great way to convert your attention into real support for the people who make the Web enjoyable. And best yet, there is no user data involved or exchanged.

How do these websites collect this money?

Content creators can verify their properties (sites, YouTube channels, Twitch accounts, and more) via creators.brave.com. If users have already attempted to tip you within the past 90 days, you may find that rewards arrive shortly after you sign up.

Tips only leave user wallets when their intended recipient is verified. They will remain in the user's wallet for up to 90 days awaiting the verification of their intended recipient. After that time, they are folded back into the user's balance, and able to be given to another creators.

That just means BAT gets to keep in circulation purely because of a low conversion rate?

Realistically, how many tipped users are going to sign up within 90 days unless one of your users explicitly tells them to? This just sounds like "we do pay them, kinda"

How do the BATs get converted into actual money? Does Brave offer redemption?

There are so many better alternatives to brave. I would not advocate for it considering their past behaviour which makes them not a browser to trust (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...)

Listing an affiliate link is not an egregious offense. But you keep posting that link all over this thread as though it were. There was no data involved, no privacy impacted, and no opaqueness to the feature. The affiliate link suggestion was shown to the user before any navigation.

Afaik dissenter from Gab is a fork from Brave, presumably without the crypto.

Last I checked (briefly after it was released), I didn't care that much for the right leaning comments. But maybe it has improved or it can be filtered.

Gab is abandonware. It hasn't been updated since September of 2020, IIRC. I'd be careful with that app.

Something has gone very wrong with how people perceive software if "hasn't been updated in three months" is enough to call it "abandonware".

Software does not, and perhaps I should say should not, need to constantly change.

This is completely orthogonal to Gab's political leaning.

For a web browser, that's certainly getting into dangerous territory. You want your web browser to be updated as rapidly as possible; zero days are a fact of life.

There are some apps for which I would agree, but not when it comes to web browsers. And my apologies, Gab's Dissenter hasn't been updated since v1.5.114, which was released back in March of 2020. So their last major build for Windows and Linux is nearing a year without an update. Their macOS build (0.70.122) is from November of 2019.

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