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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: 0s | source
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joshuamorton ◴[17 Nov 17 16:40 UTC] No.15723512[source]▶
(disclosure, I work at google, and previously at YouTube)

This allows a user to donate to a content creator even if that creator doesn't have any way to get access the donations. That is, until youtubers start registering themselves in the payment tool, this is essentially watching someone's video, and then throwing money into a hole.

With other patronage systems, like patreon, you cannot donate money until the creator has an account. To me, that feels super sketch.

Edit: It reminded me to go and check my old bitcointip and altcointip accounts on reddit, on which I apparently had combined closed to $30 in BTC at today's prices, but which have both been shuttered and are now inaccessible. That's not promising.

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philsnow ◴[17 Nov 17 17:12 UTC] No.15723836[source]▶
for disclosure, I also used to work at YouTube.

revshare is complicated and governed by, among other factors, deals YouTube makes with various parties. Brave doesn't have access to any of that information, so they couldn't possibly know how to split revenue between the uploader of the video and all the other parties that might have content embedded in the video, even if it were their intention to do so.

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1. wolco ◴[17 Nov 17 18:31 UTC] No.15724647[source]▶
Why would they split anything with youtube sponsers or care about deals they are not a party to. That's youtube's business. In those cases the content creator is paid by two parties.
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2. pgeorgi ◴[18 Nov 17 15:54 UTC] No.15729432[source]▶
I think the issue is with collab videos (multiple parties) for which creators can setup a sharing agreement.

In such a video every currency unit inside youtube (Ads, Red, ...) can be split up automatically according to some per-video sharing agreement. Everything that comes through Brave has a single recipient, the channel operator (because Brave can't read this contract).