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Comment by dubswithus | Hacker News Reader

You think Brave paying users to view ads and doing machine learning locally is worse than Google tracking you and showing you ads?

You think Google giving small businesses a chance to reach their 2 billion plus users is worse than giving people volatile internet points?

Where do you think the money comes from? At least Bing gave people legit cash.

The money comes from advertisers. The advertisers pay Brave and then Brave buys BAT off the open market to distribute to users.

A similar logic can be applied to Google - money comes from advertisers which allows users to use search, gmail, maps, etc for free.

I prefer to be paid with a revenue share. It's a better deal for me.

It’s good to have options, indeed.

"I reject your ads and substitute them with my own!"

Block ads and display opt-in ads as notifications. It's not a substitution or replacement.

They are, because both are advertisements.

It's not the same thing. You can have one without the other.

There’s good ads and bad ads. I don’t reject to ads so much as I reject the tracking and profiling that goes into most ads.

I’m perfectly happy with ads in magazines. I don’t like ads based on my search history that follow me from pc to phone to Alexa to tv to other PCs.

Yes. Nowadays I rate projects based on their proximity to cryptocurrency, so I certainly wouldn't pre-install it in my browser.