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Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s the only way to offer free services?! What about donation-based models? Maybe Mozilla could have set up something like what Brave has, except not based around a sketchy cryptocurrency.

Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I thought Brave only gave donatable tokens to users as a reward for watching ads... ads which Brave curated for the user based on their activity. It's just targeted ad revenue with extra steps.

At first blush, it seems to me that both Brave and Anonym want to be the middleman for targeted advertising. What am I missing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I think you can add your own money into Brave to tip people extra.

And the biggest difference is...

Brave sold itself on this as a feature since day one
Brave had the audience who wanted this
The Brave software is a known factor; what's going to happen to Firefox is unknown.