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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)

submitted 2 years ago by const_void@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] rarely@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you are talking about BAT, you should know that creators can sign up to get the BAT owed to them.

[–] igorkraw@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How many will though? They are still soliciting donations without the claimed recipients knowledge

[–] rarely@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Solicitating donations" isn't really how BAT works. Users who use brave earn BAT. Users who opt in to sharing their BAT will share BAT with a wallet under custody of Brave. Users who visit youtuberx's channel in brave and spend x amount of time there will earn youtuberx y BAT. When a creator verifies who they are, they get custody of their BAT wallet with the BAT contained within.

You could say that "share with content creators" is soliciting donations, but it comes from the money you get from using the browser, choosing to see notification based ads and then earning BAT over time. It's more of "turn your ad views into money to automatically give to the content creators you interact with most."

[–] igorkraw@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

They get real money for as views that they then act as if they will dispense it for the toy bucks users can "earn", knowing that most creators will never claim them=> time arbitrage in the best case, flat out false advertising/fraud in the worst case. Just because it's microcents doesn't change the facts