US newspapers raise alarm over new ad-blocker Brave
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0%2F556c7066-fcdd-11e5-b5f5-070dca6d0a0d.html
"Your apparent plan to permit your customers to make bitcoin
'donations' to us, and for you to donate to us some unspecified
percentage of revenue you receive from the sale of your ads on
our sites, cannot begin to compensate us for the loss of our
ability to fund our work by displaying our own advertising. We
expressly decline to participate in any way in Brave's supposed
business model."
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I agree with the publishers in this instance. The Brave model is
definitely theft from an ethical standpoint, and hopefully courts will
determine that it is theft from a legal standpoint as well.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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