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Brendan Eich, the inventor of Javascript and co-founder of Mozilla, launched this recently: https://www.basicattentiontoken.org/index.html https://www.basicatte
by daraosn 9y ago
Brendan Eich, the inventor of Javascript and co-founder of Mozilla, launched this recently:
https://www.basicattentiontoken.org/index.html https://www.basicattentiontoken.org/index.html
It's a token for advertisement that rewards the user, to be used at Brave browser:
https://brave.com https://brave.com
https://github.com/brave https://github.com/brave
- tmccrmck 9y agoI love the idea but if we can't get 70% of the population to use ad blockers, what chance do we have of people moving over to a new, unheard of browser? People switched to Chrome because Google told you it was a better experience every time you made a search. I don't see how people of my parents generation (60s) will ever hear about Brave.
- BrendanEich 9y agoThe BAT is for more apps, Brave is just first. Do your parents like paying half their data plan ($23/month in the US) to load tracking scripts and ads? See https://medium.com/@robleathern/carriers-are-making-more-from-mobile-ads-than-publishers-are-d5d3c0827b39 https://medium.com/@robleathern/carriers-are-making-more-fro.... Brave is 3-7x faster on top news/media sites than Chrome on Android. All this and more is discussed at https://basicattentiontoken.org/ https://basicattentiontoken.org/. How do small faster browsers get big? Marketing. To counter, big browsers have to block by default and none will (Apple comes closest and is our best ally). They're all beholden.