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> How can you argue it's not a scam?

It implies something has not been disclosed to users. Brave has been almost painfully honest.

> It could actually be argued the whole 'privacy' angle they use is merely a way to justify the whole idea of ad-swapping

Brave does not ad swap, and brave rewards ads show up as a browser notification, not inline with content. This idea came from a 2016 article where content publishers were afraid that Brave might launch with ad-swapping. Brave did get caught re-writing Binance affiliate links to their own affiliate code, but immediately discontinued the process.




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