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I think the whole "fill up a digital wallet with cryptocurrency" thing is what Brave is (was?) attempting but without much success. I do think it's the future, they just took the wrong approach (Replacing others' ads with your own IS going to create bad blood no matter how you spin it) and were too early for it.

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The trouble with Brave's approach is that it removes the user's choice of browsers.

I can only assume this forces you to use Chrome, so it has the same issue.

The issue is lessened by the fact that everyone* already uses chrome.

*Most relevant demographics

I don't think it does. Previous versions of Contributor worked in all browsers. It simply doesn't draw an ad for users that. Not really something you need a special browser for :)

Not really a big issue but ultimately all the browsers will probably follow this approach. Once you taste speed it is hard to go back.

You don't have to fill up a digital wallet with cryptocurrency with Brave, you can still block ads without doing that.

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