I mean, OP's not wrong. The phrase doesn't have to specifically mean an exchange of goods for money - can sell you on an idea, for instance. They "sold you" on the idea of using Brave by being very anti-ad. Now that you "bought it" and are hooked, they'd like some money.
Small motile cells in many species are used in a reproductive strategy very much like ads.
Tee-hee.
TBF at least it's better than the status quo of the late 90's to early 2000s, when the revenue model was malware and actual viruses rather than ad supported.
Back then we called software that phoned home to check for updates spyware and it was to be avoided. The very idea that a random offline program on my system would know when I was connected to the internet, and would be collecting my IP address was unacceptable. Now it's standard practice.
The revenue model back then was shareware. You get the software, it mostly works, and you send a check to some PO box to get a full version. It wasn't terrible. I don't remember too many companies outright shipping malware and when they did people were rightly pissed off (Sony's rootkit, or BonziBuddy for example)
What we had were lots of ad filled websites hosting shareware and it was often the ads that were infecting people, although some sites did inject malware into the downloads.
Well... If they try sell you a product, it is harmless. But with selling an ideas and manipulation of masses, that is diferent story. I guess propaganda is a right definition.
In the case of Brave (and every business), somebody’s got to hand money to someone in order to keep the lights on.
Like Apple and AdBlock, the stance is that they want to sell their own ads in the spaces where they're blocking other people's
The Brave rewards are system OS text notifications that you can OPT IN to.
In no way do they replace banner ads on websites.
They had a bug in it where if you typed a valid URL (eg. binance.us) it'd still give the sponsored link as an autocomplete which it shouldn't have. That bug stood for one day, if memory serves, and the feature was turned off by default.
We do block our own search ads if Brave Shields is set to Aggressive mode, same as with other search engines and UGC social platforms.
What else you got?
Wish I could edit or delete my post. Sorry.
Just don't use Brave search, the separate product. Or you know, add the blocking rules yourself to the ad blocker, that works. Or you know, pay the $3 dollars to support the thing you use.
Most of the people complaining here don't actually care about this. This is all just a proxy war to go against Eich for his beliefs. It happens every Brave thread, pretty transparent and pathetic.
Of course. Just like I war against your beliefs, whatever they may be. I war against all the beliefs.
I didn’t follow up on details on this, so I guess they changed their plans, that still tells me what they think about ads.
Brave also has a rewards program the user can opt-in to get scheduled text notifications on their system.
I could see your point somewhat if their rewards system was opt-out or tied to whether the adblocker was on, but it's not.
re·place /rəˈplās/
verb
1. take the place of. "Ian's smile was replaced by a frown" 2. put (something) back in a previous place or position. "he drained his glass and replaced it on the bar"
Notice the use of place and position. If you say we "replace ads", I think you are misusing the word replace. I hope you won't from here on, because we definitely still get smeared with the lie that we replace ads in-situ in publisher pages.
The blocking system is a stance against privacy invasions, not advertising itself.