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

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

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.

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.

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.