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Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube

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321 points Helloworldboy | 2 comments | 17 Nov 17 14:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source
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proaralyst ◴[17 Nov 17 15:24 UTC] No.15722656[source]▶
I think this is a service I'd use if it were available as an extension rather than a browser in its own right.
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decentralised ◴[17 Nov 17 15:37 UTC] No.15722763[source]▶
You should really try the browser itself, partly because it will pay you to watch some ads, and partly because it will respect your privacy.
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proaralyst ◴[17 Nov 17 15:46 UTC] No.15722882[source]▶
But I trust Mozilla more with my privacy and I don't want to watch ads at all!
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1. aaron-lebo ◴[17 Nov 17 15:52 UTC] No.15722953[source]▶
This is why Brave has a limited future as it is.

You can't pay me cents to pick a worse browser. It's like the days when there were those pay to surf companies. The promise of money is nice, but most end users don't benefit that much from it. There's a lot more incentive for the company for their product to work than there is for the users to adopt it.

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2. decentralised ◴[17 Nov 17 16:18 UTC] No.15723278[source]▶
I'm not deeply familiar with Brave's roadmap but my understanding is that the BAT tokens you'd receive from watching ads could also be used to tip content providers similar to what can be done in Steemit.