We didn't hide "adware", probably you are thinking of this:
https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/
We made $0 off it, it was a blunder, we fixed it right away. But if you mean something else, please let me know.
We didn't hide "adware", probably you are thinking of this:
https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/
We made $0 off it, it was a blunder, we fixed it right away. But if you mean something else, please let me know.
Off the top of my head there's that, collecting money for others and keeping it, and replacing ads with your own. All of which are adware/malware behavior.
How many "oopsies" do you think people are going to overlook before realizing you are just a scam artist?
I completely disagree with the slant on this summary. The ad business with The Google shaped American business and then quite a lot of the entire Internet. A company is formed to build something different, in that economic context.
I turned off my ad options in Brave as soon as I learned how. I do not participate in their ad market. Yet I find Brave a great browser for multiple reasons. Am I filled with angst and retaliatory drive because Brave tried to start an ad ecosystem ? Maybe for a minute, but compared to the winners in that space, and their almost uncountable monetary fortunes.. no. There is a business layer to society.
Personal characterizations of "scam artist" pale compared to the bigger scam artists, who wear suits and have expensive attorneys. Perfect is in short supply.
Let Brave Browser compete and make some people annoyed because of ads. Let me turn off my ad options and use their reliable browser.
How many falsehoods carelessly repeated from you before people consider you a liar?
We never collected others’ money for creators, the grants were from our user growth pool. My product people learned a lesson on “right to publicity”, however I should have caught the bad design on that front so blame me for not looking closely - which is not a scam, it’s an error.
Replacing ads with our own never happened. We talked about doing it with publisher opt in, but the triple conversion (pub would have to get enough nonblocking readers to switch to Brave, we would need to get of those users to opt in, then we’d have to sell pub on 70% revshare from ads to those converted users) odds too low.
Smearing me if you don’t like my politics is bad. If that’s not a factor then consider checking your facts before parroting such false or distorted stories.