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I am on the business team at Brave. We want people to collect and get paid. It's a huge part of why we come in to work every day, to work on stuff that helps creators get paid.

I'm sure there's UI/UX stuff in Patreon that could be better. That doesn't mean they don't want creators to get paid. It just means there's room for improvement.

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People on Patreon intentionally wish to accept donations, while you hide their Patreon ads, links to their other sites, and replace it with your unwanted platform? You can't compare yourself with a service that _someone particularly opted into and wants and set up themselves_ with _misusing someone's brand to take money as an unauthorised third party, while at the same time blocking that person's intended messaging to collect money for themselves_

Right. The sensible thing for any Patreon user to do would be blocking Brave based on UserAgent.

Oh, turns out Brave doesn’t have its own UA: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/brave-user-agent-detection

What a dishonest product.

Wow, this is even more dishonest than I thought. Intentional choice too, not a "forgot to update after forking x browser".

Come on, man. The 'donation' UI was clearly designed to deceive visitors into thinking that the creator signed up and customized it themselves. Brave fucked up big time, and you aren't doing your employer any favors by commenting here; at this point the only people who should be making statements are Brave's lawyers.

We've just published a rundown on the many changes going into the UI to address concerns like these. You can find it here: https://brave.com/rewards-update/

We shipped confusing, poorly considered UI and are hustling to get it fixed. Thanks for your feedback.

Dude, that UI was not merely 'confusing', it was clearly intentionally deceptive. Nobody here is dumb enough to fall for such blatant PR spin.

If you're sincere, then for starters, how about removing the $100 threshold immediately, and notifying all people who have had donations made to them, so that they can come and claim the money?

You really want to get spammed with "claim your 5ct in donations for signing up on our website!" every day?

I'm suggesting that for starters, they do it once so that people are at least aware that someone is soliciting donations in their name. I don't think that's enough, but it's the biggest source of contention.

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