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Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

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323 points plusCubed | 1 comments | 21 Dec 18 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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SheinhardtWigCo ◴[21 Dec 18 19:48 UTC] No.18735987[source]▶
Brave is a web browser that takes your money and claims to pay out to your favorite websites and content creators, but in most cases actually pays into a "user growth pool" that funds pyramid-shaped marketing (paying users to use the browser) and referral programs for partner content creators. How is that not fraud?
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1. drcode ◴[21 Dec 18 20:16 UTC] No.18736240[source]▶
Well, I guess the core question is whether their users understand the mechanism they are participating in when they pay their contribution. I don't see the problem of letting their users participate in such a mechanism as long as there is transparency about how it works and that the contribution system has some pretty significant limitations.