[Nursie]

>> a very deliberate picture of Brave as a bad actor worse than other browser vendors.

They have been at times.

Particularly in the period during which they solicited funds to "help support" blogs and pages by people who had not signed up (and did not want to sign up when they found out about Brave and BAT).

I'm not saying they're all bad, but they've overstepped the bounds of good behaviour at times.

[steerablesafe]

> Particularly in the period during which they solicited funds to "help support" blogs and pages by people who had not signed up

IANAL but this sounds like straight up fraud, not just "overstepping the line a little bit".

[Nursie]

I agree, they seemed to be scraping author images from blogs, and putting messages up saying "You can support the site by sending a tip!"

There's a screenshot here - https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...

Tom Scott was alerted to this when someone sent him a tweet asking if he'd got thte tip, and was annoyed because he had no intention of monetising anything.

It does indeed look fraudulent to me. They have changed the behaviour now IIRC.

[fuu_dev]

And it only took legal fraud accusation and online media coverage to resolve that. Trustworthy :)

[plopz]

More info on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999