Perhaps we should consider why we allow the U.S. to have SWAT teams that respond in such a manner?
Readit News_corym commented on What Working At Stripe Has Been Like kalzumeus.com/2020/10/09/... · Posted by u/yarapavan
Kind of crazy how all these articles come out about what it's like working at Stripe and how to apply. Everyone I've talked to who has applied has not received a response from their application.
Even in my most recent experience I wrote a cover letter, reached out to multiple Stripe recruiters. Most of them either ignored me, or said that they were not working on that role and said my status is still "pending".
I imagine that Stripe's recruiting team is overwhelmed but it was unfortunate that they weren't able to get back to me. I ended up accepting an engineering manager position over payments at another company.
_corym commented on Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher brave.com/wikipedia-verif... · Posted by u/yagodragon
- do you plan to have a simple password instead of email link?
- are there any brave banners i can use to promote brave?
- will u provide a command line tool to verify websites?
- why are referrals tied to channels instead of account?
- will you expand to micropayments?
- will brave always block ads everywhere or will you switch to blocking only on verified sites?
Some form if instant payment is sorely needed. I hope regulators can catch up with reality , or else maybe brave should move to another country
( it s also comical to witness the hostility of HN towards brave. Are we full of google shills here? )
(disclaimer engineer @ brave on creators team)
> do you plan to have a simple password instead of email link?
security gave the A-okay to give users an option to be able to stay signed in for 30 days. soon you will be able to check a box to stay signed in.
> are there any brave banners i can use to promote brave?
https://brave.com/assets-for-creators/
> will u provide a command line tool to verify websites?
not in the foreseeable future. we have had some discussions allowing keybase as a trusted connection and mark any properties they have verified as verified in brave as well. we might have more news on that front in the future.
> why are referrals tied to channels instead of account?
very good question, this is a symptom of tech debt. we're hoping to move it over to the account very soon
> will you expand to micropayments?
we're discussing more ways to spend your BAT and that's all I'll say about that :)
> will brave always block ads everywhere or will you switch to blocking only on verified sites?
brave will block 3rd party ads, in the future we will be introducing publisher ads which will allow websites to define sections of their site to for Brave to insert local privacy-preserving advertisements. the publishers get 70% of the revenue and users receive 30%.
_corym commented on What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time? twitter.com/jonathansamps... · Posted by u/ingve
Brave has a history of acting shady.
For a while they would take BAT "donations" for any website, and would just keep them unless the site owner signed up to receive them. This stopped a few months ago.
The whole monetization model of replacing a site's ads with their own is questionable.
The whole BAT thing seems like a scam, they offer ways to buy them but no way to sell them.
Really anything that uses a cryptocurrency for funding has that "con stink".
You can sell BAT via any crypto exchange or website. Coinbase, Uphold, Binance, etc. You can even choose to have BAT automatically convert to USD, Euro, etc.
_corym commented on What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time? twitter.com/jonathansamps... · Posted by u/ingve
I hoped at one point Brave would follow more of a patreon-like model - block ads on pages and give the site my money in exchange. Unfortunately they've gone for showing me different ads.
Brave does follow this patreon style model. There's a section in the Brave Rewards panel that mentions "Auto-contribute" which does what your describing.
You can also easily enable and disable Brave Ads while still contributing (though you'd need to fund your browser wallet)
_corym commented on I Visited 49 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/uptown
_corym commented on I Visited 49 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/uptown
And all in the service of vacuuming up tiny fractions of pennies in advertising revenue.
What a silly, fragile business model whose days are numbered.
It's amazing to consider how much revenue has been generated, predicated on completely unnecessary and (now) easily disabled browser features.
I have to imagine that like the cigarette manufacturers of yore, companies whose lifeblood is based on this kind of nonsense are kept up at night wondering where the money will come from when this house of cards collapses.
I think Brave's business model of blocking all these harmful ads that track you is awesome. Users can then opt-in to get paid to view notification-based privacy preserving ads. Websites and publishers can make up for the loss of revenue from these ads through creators.brave.com
_corym commented on I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me blog.samuelmaddock.com/po... · Posted by u/smaddock
This is what pisses me off aboit ads and data consumption pay rates: if i am paying for “1GB” of data, then i should have full control over how that data gets consumed by the content i am accessing over that paid pipe. Period.
That's why I use Brave Browser, it blocks everything by default. Doesn't even download them.
_corym commented on Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent twitter.com/tomscott/stat... · Posted by u/plusCubed
I assume you're talking about the user requests regarding their data? Well, if the data is so anonymized that even the person can't prove who they are, then I'd say it falls in the provision that exempts anonymized data.
But in this case, I'm assuming the user must have a private key (for signing BAT transactions), so they could build a feature in the browser to sign messages using it.
The problem with signing transactions is basically then you can identify the browser history of the user. The BAT-ledger explains the principles of the transaction system
https://github.com/brave-intl/bat-ledger/blob/master/documen...
The current process is the data is anonymized and then sent out for privacy reasons.
As you add more of them though, they add tech debt and make the code harder to reason about. Developers are rarely motivated to clean them up after rollout.