Jer Warren
Brave hides the ads that publishers put on their site, and then puts THEIR OWN ads in their place.
Brave then pays you to look at those ads (after they take a cut) and you can use that money to pay your favorite publishers back for hiding their ads.
https://gizmodo.com/brave-wants-to-destroy-the-ad-business-by-paying-you-to-1834283860
Jer Warren
If your favorite publisher isn't a Brave partner, they have to know to ask for that money, otherwise it just sits in escrow.
If they DO ask for the money, Brave then takes a cut of it as a transaction fee.
Blocking ads is a grey area, but making money while they do it isn't.
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