Quite a lot of Twitter objected to what was, to all appearances, blatant fraud.Īfter Brave founder Brendan Eich had spent about five days on Twitter berating his many objectors with allusions to Plato, Hume and Nietzsche - “In short run, without sounding Nietzschean, will matters. Any reasonable person would call this “passing off” - it’s got the creator’s name and photo, and the direct claim “You can support this site by sending a tip”: Here’s what the browser was showing people ( screenshot by Jackson Palmer). It looks like they’re ‘providing this service’ for every creator on every platform. So if you thought you’d donated to me through Brave, the money (or their pseudo-money) will not reach me, and Brave’s terms say they may choose to just keep it themselves. Amy Castor wrote up the story ( archive) for The Block.īritish YouTuber Tom Scott was asked if he was getting his BAT donations - and Tom was not pleased in the slightest - “it’s about ‘passing off’, claiming you represent someone when you don’t.” This caused some slight problems just before Christmas - when the browser was caught presenting “support this site” banners for creators who weren’t signed up for BAT at all. The idea is that you can give this to creators whose stuff you like. The Brave web browser is a favourite of crypto fans, because it has a crypto in it - the Basic Attention Token (BAT) ERC-20 token.
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