Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
I just dug up info on how Brave’s contributions thing works and it feels like such a mess.<p>According to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brave.com&#x2F;publishers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brave.com&#x2F;publishers&#x2F;</a><p>- once you have accumulated $100 in contributions they email “the webmaster at your site” and the owner of your domain according to the WHOIS. I assume this is “webmaster@domain.name”, which I sure don’t have set up on my personal site.<p>- you have to “check your balance frequently and transfer funds wherever you choose”, which suggests that there’s no way to just say “send my my balance every month” and forget about it.<p>This whole model totally breaks down when you remember that there’s a ton of independent creators who don’t have their own sites, but instead post stuff on another site. Is Brave going to realize that I’m following this particular person on YouTube, that person on Tumblr, this other person on Deviantart, etc, etc? And are they going to ping them or are they just gonna tell the people who own the site?<p>The page where you sign up to receive payments (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publishers.basicattentiontoken.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publishers.basicattentiontoken.org</a>) makes it sound like they understand YouTube accounts and nothing else, and as a creator whos interest in pivoting to video is nonexistent, screw that, I’ll stick with Patreon and it’s opt-in model that just transfers money into my bank account every month as long as I have patrons.