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Brave
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Brave is the company blog at blog.brave.com, writing about security and web. Since 2016, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Introducing Brave Payments”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Brave's posts on Brave Payments and micropayments, which describe how the browser would let readers pay publishers and how ad money is split between publishers and users.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brave's latest news on ad blocking, features, performance, privacy and Basic Attention Token related announcements.
Most-linked posts?
- Introducing Brave Payments6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-09-01
- /braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-deal-for-publishers/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-02
- QUIC in the wild, only for Google ad advantage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-25
What Hacker News says?
Brave has a relatively novel approach to this dilemma ( https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/ ). "Users simply need to turn on Brave Payments from within Brave’s preferences page, then fund their Brave wallet (either with Coinbase, or by using Bitcoin they already have), and then browse as usual. While everything is automatic, once enabled, the Brave Payments UI allows you to control which sites receive…
Comment linking /introducing-brave-payments/
on “uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge”Submitted Loading Chrome Extensions in Brave as a story · 97 points
HN discussionSeems like this is what Brave is trying to do, too: https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/
Comment linking /introducing-brave-payments/
on “Richard Stallman: Online Publishers Should Let Readers Pay Anonymously”Submitted QUIC in the wild, only for Google ad advantage as a story · 24 points
HN discussionIs this something Brave is implementing with its "Brave Payments" [0]? [0] https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments , HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12411405
Comment linking /introducing-brave-payments
on “Richard Stallman: Online Publishers Should Let Readers Pay Anonymously”Submitted Introducing Brave Payments as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNothing is keeping them from doing it. They (and others, e.g. the Brave browser and Optimal) have been doing that for a while. Here are a few related links: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/21/google-co... http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/google-relaunches-co... https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/ https://medium.com/@robleathern/why-we-sold-optimals-technol...
Comment linking /introducing-brave-payments/
on “How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social media sites and apps”Submitted QUIC in the wild, only for Google ad advantage as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBrave browser will be including a micropayments system soon! https://blog.brave.com/braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-d...
Comment linking /braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-deal-for-publishers/
on “Requests for Startups Refreshed”Submitted Their connection, your data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBrave is also testing micropayments, with a 5% cut, https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/
Comment linking /introducing-brave-payments/
on “CoinTent: A Sustainable Ad-Free Web”You're describing the Payments feature in the Brave browser: https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/
Comment linking /introducing-brave-payments/
on “How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media”That is the plan. Of the ad money Brave receives, it is meant to take a small cut, give a large piece to the publisher, and give a cut to the user. See https://brave.com/assets/blog_images/image03.png from https://blog.brave.com/braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-d... .
Comment linking /braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-deal-for-publishers/
on “Brave Browser Adds Bitcoin Payments”
