<story><title>Brave launches 1.0</title><url>https://brave.com/brave-launches-next-generation-browser/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyborgx7</author><text>I already decided my Ad participation. I block ads, and want the advertising industry to die. This does not seem like a value add to me.</text></item><item><author>jonathansampson</author><text>Brave Ads are opt-in, and user-configurable. You decide whether or not to participate, and to what degree (1 to 5 ads per hour). These ads are surfaced as OS notifications, which means they respect settings like Do Not Disturb, Focus Mode, etc. And, as always, you receive 70% of the ad revenue for your participation. Respectfully, that doesn&amp;#x27;t strike me as an &amp;quot;escalation of hostility&amp;quot; when you compare against the current option: forced participation, malicious ads, no revenue share, data leaked to a sea of third parties who use it for their purposes.</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>You had me...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Brave ads show up as a notification in your operating system outside of the page.&lt;p&gt;and then you lost me. Hitting people with notifications is an &lt;i&gt;escalation&lt;/i&gt; of ad hostility, not a reduction.</text></item><item><author>judah</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using Brave rewards, both as a user and a content maker. It&amp;#x27;s really great, and I feel this may be a reasonable alternative to the invasive trackers+ads we have today.&lt;p&gt;For the uninitiated, Brave lets users opt-in to Brave rewards:&lt;p&gt;- You set your browser to reward content creators with Basic Attention Token (BAT). You set a budget (e.g. 10 BAT&amp;#x2F;month), and Brave distributes it the sites you use most, e.g. if you watch a particular YouTube channel 30% of your browsing time, it will send 30% of 10 BAT each month to that content creator.&lt;p&gt;- As a user, you can get paid in BAT. You tell Brave if you&amp;#x27;re willing to see ads, and how often. If so, you get paid in BAT, which you can then distribute to content creators. Brave ads are different: rather than intrusive in-page ads, Brave ads show up as a notification in your operating system outside of the page. This prevents slow downs of the page, keeping your browsing focused, while still allowing support of content creators. And of course, Brave ads are optional and opt-in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdkhadsj</author><text>Yea, I&amp;#x27;d be happier if there was some notion of an inherent value in my eyeballs - and then I could just put that money into the system. Eg, I pay $5&amp;#x2F;m or $15&amp;#x2F;m, whatever, and that gets split up by the number of pages I view and content I consume.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a firm believer that FOSS and &lt;i&gt;(Internet)&lt;/i&gt; Content needs funding. Yet, I loathe ads. They promote &lt;i&gt;(but are not solely to blame for)&lt;/i&gt; behavior that is a brain drain on society. Ads always seem to boil down to 90s style child cereal commercials. Loud noises and flashy attention grabbing tactics to pull you towards it within a tiny, limited window of bought attention.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not convinced society is better because of ads. The dystopian movies with neons signs everywhere seem shockingly accurate &lt;i&gt;(and I believe are already like that in many eastern cities)&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I like some of Brave&amp;#x27;s attempt. At least their doing &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt;. But Ads still seem wrong to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Brave launches 1.0</title><url>https://brave.com/brave-launches-next-generation-browser/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyborgx7</author><text>I already decided my Ad participation. I block ads, and want the advertising industry to die. This does not seem like a value add to me.</text></item><item><author>jonathansampson</author><text>Brave Ads are opt-in, and user-configurable. You decide whether or not to participate, and to what degree (1 to 5 ads per hour). These ads are surfaced as OS notifications, which means they respect settings like Do Not Disturb, Focus Mode, etc. And, as always, you receive 70% of the ad revenue for your participation. Respectfully, that doesn&amp;#x27;t strike me as an &amp;quot;escalation of hostility&amp;quot; when you compare against the current option: forced participation, malicious ads, no revenue share, data leaked to a sea of third parties who use it for their purposes.</text></item><item><author>hinkley</author><text>You had me...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Brave ads show up as a notification in your operating system outside of the page.&lt;p&gt;and then you lost me. Hitting people with notifications is an &lt;i&gt;escalation&lt;/i&gt; of ad hostility, not a reduction.</text></item><item><author>judah</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using Brave rewards, both as a user and a content maker. It&amp;#x27;s really great, and I feel this may be a reasonable alternative to the invasive trackers+ads we have today.&lt;p&gt;For the uninitiated, Brave lets users opt-in to Brave rewards:&lt;p&gt;- You set your browser to reward content creators with Basic Attention Token (BAT). You set a budget (e.g. 10 BAT&amp;#x2F;month), and Brave distributes it the sites you use most, e.g. if you watch a particular YouTube channel 30% of your browsing time, it will send 30% of 10 BAT each month to that content creator.&lt;p&gt;- As a user, you can get paid in BAT. You tell Brave if you&amp;#x27;re willing to see ads, and how often. If so, you get paid in BAT, which you can then distribute to content creators. Brave ads are different: rather than intrusive in-page ads, Brave ads show up as a notification in your operating system outside of the page. This prevents slow downs of the page, keeping your browsing focused, while still allowing support of content creators. And of course, Brave ads are optional and opt-in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nybble41</author><text>So don&amp;#x27;t opt-in. There are other ways to acquire BAT and support the sites you visit in Brave besides watching ads.</text></comment>