ryanbr
commented
1 year ago Allowing ads, people would just install an adblock extension or move to another browser. This would be a very anti-consumer move and we would lose users. Its a major "NO" here.
Open NumDeP opened 1 year ago
ryanbr
commented
1 year ago Allowing ads, people would just install an adblock extension or move to another browser. This would be a very anti-consumer move and we would lose users. Its a major "NO" here.
NumDeP
commented
1 year ago How the heck does that make it an anti-consumer move? Do you mean anti-brave user/consumer or internet consumers in general?
My reasoning behind it if you'd actually put the effort to read my concern was ONLY because the consumer and the content creator I feel is being terribly neglected and I feel the CEO hasn't done enough since the creation of the BAT program and the BAT technology to support content creators that from one angle can be seen as being screwed over by Brave, other than saying (paraphrasing) hey guys, join one of two of our partnered crypto exchange services and create an account with our wallet and the hope that enough people that watch you have equally gone through the same process of creating all those accounts to pay them in tips.
I don't think my idea/feature/solution is the best idea but Brave simply hasn't done enough in my opinion regarding this space.
Do me this favour if you please and before you go ape-s**t I think it is a rather fair of me to ask considering I've been a long-standing user, plus (not to sound rude) it could be seen as unfair given the sheer amount of data you take from us via P3A regardless of the anonymity aspect.
Communicate with any number of employees (preferably a dozen devs and non devs) at Brave that watch youtube and ask them these simple questions, obviously keeping the individuals private:
Let me know what they say here.
Have you searched for similar issues? Sort of.
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Okay before you have a go at me and say say this is counter productive, I did offer an alternative here - Brave should still pay unverified companies but I guess the team didn't think much of it.
This is going to sound so silly and rather contradictory considering it is a fundamentally a part of Brave's USP but I was thinking if you can include an option in the Brave icon to sort of release ads when watching a video it would be a great way for some users to still support content creators.
I know you'll probably say well idiot why don't you just turn it off, however, if I were to do that it creates three further issues, the first being it would unfortunately release all the nasty tracking aspects whilst watching the video including ones that show-up in real-time when you usually watch a youtube video, the second issue being that it doesn't technically make sense considering when you're watching the video half-way through or finished watching the video it would be rather silly to download more data and waste time by re-watching the same video again, the third issue is that, well I forgot about the third issue but there was one and I'll update when I remember.
As mentioned in the opening I did create an issue a while ago, actually almost 4 years ago, sort of indirectly linked to this which was to allow a function to somehow get funds to end up in that hands of non-brave account holders, Though a response wasn't given I suppose an argument could be made it just adds an extra level of complexity to Brave, however, this feature/function seems the most simplest and quickest option to get content creator paid however little that may be, because let's be fair it does seem like ad blockers do somehow unfortunately undercut content creators even though some do promote sponsorship deal quite often a lot of other arguably most do not and pretty much rely on revenues generated from ads, I could be wrong.
Expected result:
I'm sure the team can think of a adequate function so Brave users can easily understand the purpose and I think I did state one above.