It will be interesting to see where this goes. I am all for experimentation when it comes to an alternative model for paying for content.
Hubski is a verified Brave Publisher now, so if you use the Brave browser, we can accept part of what you give; or you can donate direct.
I'm going to do an update post on this soon.
Also, if you download Brave through this link, we get some BAT: https://brave.com/hub874
I'm passionate about web browsers, so I sometimes visit Brave's subreddit. It's a fascinating place. If you want an influx of new users for Hubski, post a submission there that Hubski is now a verified Brave publisher. Just be warned that they are a rather peculiar bunch.
Hah, true enough! Well. Like with any cryptocurrency project; most of the users are in it for the money. They've invested early and are hoping Brave becomes mainstream so they can cash out as millionaires. They have a Daily BAT Discussion where they discuss how the value of their currency has changed in the last 24 hours, and they are completely stoked to have made the equivalent of $0.02 from clicking an advertisement. And then there's the whole cult of personality thing they have going for their CEO.
No no, they come up with a new creative name every day, to describe in metaphors the latest development of BAT's value, I assume. It's honestly rather impressive. Unless it's just mad libs, hard to say for sure.
A huge flaw of Chrome on mobile is that it doesn't support extensions, which means among other things no ad blocking (unless you use some sort of system-wide ad blocking, like hosts file filtering). Brave on mobile probably also doesn't support extensions, but it has built-in ad blocking, so at least that's taken care of. Personally I ditched both Chrome and Google after the Snowden leaks. Thankfully DDG has improved a lot since then.Better than Chrome, IMO.
DuckDuckGo is my default search, but Chrome on mobile broke search bar functionality in the last update. It looks at everything I type in the bar as a web address. Chrome also broke the setting to change the default search; trying to change it crashes the browser 100% of the time.
The latest Chrome update also manages to foil attempts by websites to detect when you’re browsing in incognito mode (and deny content accordingly). Sorry, NY Times, I’ll pony up when I’m done with grad school.