| > That seems like watching these fewer ads directly on the site, The ads from Brave are completely separate from the website. They are presented as an OS notification pop-up. > Somehow there has to be money going into the system that supports its own existance. Yes, of course. Their revenue coming from the advertisers that get to place ads on their notifications. They only pay to the users a share of this revenue. If for some reason they stop getting advertisers, they will stop paying the users. Simple as that. > This means that you get potentially even less money. This is making the very bad assumption that they have a fixed revenue. As their user base grows, more advertisers will be interested in placing ads on their network and their revenue will increase. > Also, why do they pay out in BAT? Primarily, because it simplifies the logistics and allows them to escape the regulatory hurdles of having to become licensed money transmitters, and lets them outsource all of that crap to the crypto exchanges. A second-order but also important effect is that it attract users who want to speculate on the token. > Why should I support someone by using BATs instead of paypaling/patreoning/whatever-elseing him the money directly? Whynotboth.jpg? Patreon is not bad, but they are not in a business that can fight surveillance capitalism. Patreon does not have a way to block Facebook from tracking my browsing. Brave does. Patreon does not block the Youtube ads from the people that you want to support. Brave does. |