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by freitasm 1629 days ago
And yet, one of the main features to benefit publishers is dead on arrival - for example I get paid by Google AdSense about 300 times more than Brave's Basic Attention Token on a monthly basis. They do a great job at blocking ads. They do a good job at pushing their own crypto ads but their Brave Rewards idea of rewarding publishers based on a monthly contribution from the community never quite worked because, really people want to block ads and are not interested in paying for the content via a wallet that requires you to exchange hard cash for tokens that you can't withdraw and can't control where it goes.

Actually moved from being a long time Google Chrome user to Edge Chromium.

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What's the DAU of all browsers combined? I'd guess something like 2 billion. Given the stats from the OP, Brave should account for <1% of usage. Them managing to pay out .33% especially given how immature their business model is sounds incredibly good.
> really people want to block ads and are not interested in paying for the content via a wallet that requires you to exchange hard cash for tokens that you can't withdraw and can't control where it goes.

I earn BAT and give it away. No KYC required. There are some greedy users. But those would block AdSense regardless of Brave and you would get nothing anyway.