• tracyspcy@lemmy.ml
    28·
    3 years ago

    Lol. Probably Brave users think they gonna be rich by earning tokens for ads :) brave just uses peoples greed

    • adrianmalacoda@lemmy.ml
      19·
      3 years ago

      this, it’s a cryptomoney scheme. They need to promote Brave in order to increase the value of the cryptomoney token. There’s also an affiliate referral link program I’ve seen spammed a couple of times

      • k_o_t@lemmy.mlOP
        8·
        3 years ago

        if all of this will turn out to be an elaborate scheme to increase the value of BAT, that would be very impressive lol

        • tracyspcy@lemmy.ml
          3·
          3 years ago

          Exactly, it is astonishing how easy to sell garbage appealing to greed. And how easily people consent to believe that something useless has value. Brave not paying in USD, it pays with useless token, so literally people got as much money for watching brave ads as they believe the value of bat token is.

          • k_o_t@lemmy.mlOP
            1·
            3 years ago

            you can technically get usd for your bat tokens on some exchanges, no?

            • tracyspcy@lemmy.ml
              2·
              3 years ago

              yes, but amount of usd is determined be peoples estimations how much bat costs :) And nothing prevents it from sinking to 0 one day.

              upd. not sure though, ca a year ago I tried brave , got ad and bats, but there was no withdrawal mechanism or it required phone number and kyc

  • yond3rbread@lemmy.ml
    15·
    3 years ago

    I’ll never understand the normies that use Brave. They’re like “it keeps my data private” blah blah blah. Don’t trust nothing unless you can see it’s code. Also really irritates me when they start recommending it to other uneducated people.

    • IngrownMink4@lemmy.ml
      5·
      3 years ago

      I agree with you, but as the OP says, Brave users, being dissidents from the Firefox community, resent Mozilla and its supporters. They are extremely hostile and they don’t like criticism of their browser. It will be difficult to convince them…

  • nerdyguy1990@lemmy.ml
    13·
    3 years ago

    They are pretty toxic, it seems. I was told to “go back to firefox, they are wokies like you”. And a couple other comments from brave’s fan base.

    • salarua@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      3 years ago

      i had a similar experience. i made a post on r/Brave about the lack of sensible defaults for the news feed (it had just rolled out to me at the time) and got a ton of reactionaries in the replies. i switched to Firefox out of spite and never looked back.

  • jrheronn@programming.dev
    3·
    1 year ago

    How about no ads? Once you force ads into something I use or make it impossible for me to block them, it is time to find an alternative.