“The model will be tipping - a user likes a tweet and can give BAT to the tweeter, and optionally tweet back that he tipped,” the company said, adding that the feature would go live later in the year.Īs CCN.com reported, Twitch streamers and YouTube channel operators, along with website owners, can already register as Brave publishers, allowing them to accept BAT payments from their viewers, readers, or fans. Similar rules apply in the UK and the EU.Those thousands of hours you spent crafting witty memes while you should have been doing your algebra homework may finally earn you more than retweets and Reddit karma.ĬNET reports that Brave, the privacy-centric web browser launched by Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich and funded by an initial coin offering (ICO), plans to roll out Reddit and Twitter tipping to its native cryptocurrency payments system.Īfter manually enabling the payment system through the browser’s settings page, users will be able to link their social media accounts to their in-browser Basic Attention Token (BAT) wallets and both tip and accept tips from other users. In the US, the FTC has required full disclosure of affiliate marketing since 2009 - you have to put it right there on the page. This ignores the legally required disclosures for affiliate links - the disclosures that Brave also ignored for the eToro links in March. This was spotted by on Twitter earlier today.īrendan Eich, the founder and CEO of Brave, assures us that putting his referrer links into URLs that users typed in, to try to get people to click through accidentally, is all completely upright and above-board. If you’re using Brave and try to go to the Binance crypto exchange, Brave hijacks the Binance link you typed in, and autofills with its own affiliate code.

Just in March this year, Brave was caught running eToro affiliate marketing without the legally-required disclaimers - and Brave staff were caught deleting all mention of this from the r/brave_browser subforum on Reddit.

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