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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: 0.428s | 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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hiq ◴[17 Nov 17 16:01 UTC] No.15723048[source]▶
This, so much this. Maybe I could reconsider if they paid me more than a few dollars per good (according to me) advertisement, but I doubt that this will be the case. Until then, I will stick to ad-blocking.
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decentralised ◴[17 Nov 17 16:07 UTC] No.15723133[source]▶
How about this, a system will show you ads and you can chose to skip or stop if you don't like them. In any case for however many seconds you endured, you get paid.
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hiq ◴[17 Nov 17 16:12 UTC] No.15723197[source]▶
Sounds interesting, but my threshold is probably too high, and I would skip most of them. When was the last time you enjoyed watching an ad? I can't remember, but it's rarely the case. If you combine this with the chance that you are the target of the ads, it's pretty low.
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1. decentralised ◴[17 Nov 17 16:24 UTC] No.15723346[source]▶
I've invested in BAT during their ICO and today I feel like I'm hustling my investment a little bit. :-)

I mostly use Brave on my phone because it makes the browsing experience faster and removes most ads by default. I won't change to another browser on the iPhone anytime soon. Having said this, I haven't used the payments feature outside of web3 (Ethereum DApps).

I don't watch ads with any interest or attention in general, but I often have Youtube playing some live concert on the background while I work and ads cut midway forcing me to change tabs so I can skip them. The idea that instead of breaking my concentration to stop an add playing I can simply let them and that _that_ could be a little money generating activity seems appealing.

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2. PKop ◴[17 Nov 17 17:21 UTC] No.15723906[source]▶
Safari with content blockers does this as well.. perhaps with better performance?