Consumption is justice! Obesity is patriotism! Adblocking is terrorism!
I remember when they said the same about TiVo.
If the publishers want to squash his plans, maybe they should just make sure the Do Not Track flags are honored so their ads get shown.
Itās a shame that the accompanying graph image has been anti-aliased so much that the numbers are illegible.
OK. Iāll ask this hereā¦
How āexperimentalā are we talking? It looks like itās online and running:
Iād give it a try but donāt want to invest the effort if itās not ready for primetime yet.
I gotta admit, I find something really unsettling about the Brave ad model, because thereās something fundamentally different between āI choose not to look at adsā and āMy browser shows me different ads and earns a profit on itā. I suppose the goal is good, but that does seem like a weird path to walk.
Isnāt Brendan Eich the homophobe who donated money to the anti-gay marriage campaign and got booted from Mozilla after protests? Probably worth mentioning.
Sounds like a fun browser but I would like answers to the following before I switch over:
it doesnāt work on my pc ATM, i launch it it comes up, then immeadiatley closes, no error message.
so iāll re-grab once a month until it works, itās a great idea
Why yes, yes he is!
WTF?! Last time I visited Queerty, I donāt recall seeing all these ads for Chick-fil-A and Mormon dating sites!!?
I find something really unsettling about the Brave ad model, because thereās something fundamentally different between āI choose not to look at adsā and āMy browser shows me different ads and earns a profit on itā.
Yes. There is a fundamental difference here that is being elided over. From a historical perspective, once I have your content I can do what I want with it so long as I donāt redistribute it in violation of your copyright. If you sell me a newspaper I can cut all of the ads out of it, I can cut the comic strips out of it, I can discard the entire classified ads section - all of that is me making a choice to do with the content what I see fit.
What Eich is proposing is basically the equivalent of him taking a stack of free newspapers (that are supposed to earn their money via advertising), pasting his own ads over the existing ads, sticking them back into the pile and telling the newspaper āhey, Iāll give you a cut of my advertisingā. Heās proposing to steal their content and redistribute it without their permission - and thatās a line that no content creator should really want to see crossed.
He admits donating to the Prop 8 campaign, which was supposed to restrict marriage in California to one man and one woman.
That said, I knew him at Netscape and later at AOL, and I have never known him to be homophobic in word or deed. We are not friends-- I donāt like him and he doesnāt like me, and heās one reason I didnāt last at AOL-- but I think heās being tarred inappropriately with a SJW brush.
Wait, so Iām supposed to give up my AdBlockers and use his āapprovedā ads instead so the end result is that I see ads again?
So donāt install it. Brave isnāt being deceptive in any way. Itās entirely opt-in.
Newspaper publishers could start honoring do-not-track or use a reverse-proxy to turn third-party ads into first-party ads.
There are lots of reasons people use ad blockers. Some people donāt want to see ads. Some people donāt mind the ads, but they donāt like tracking. Brave caters to the latter group.
Iām in that group - Iād like websites to know as much about me as the publishers of People magazine do after I read a copy in a waiting room.
(of course there are other reasons to use an adblocker including minimizing bandwidth and power consumption and maximizing browser speed)
Umā¦ donating to the Prop 8 campaign is itself a homophobic deed, and all 'round dick move.
Thatās not how Iām taking it. Heās proposing to block their ad revenue and replace it with ads that generate revenue for him. Which I donāt really see how, from the blocked companyās perspective, is any different than running an ad blocker - they still donāt get their ad seen either way.
I think heās talking about āstealingā the content creatorās content; not the advertiserās.
