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Eich: Google is complicit with digital ad fraudsters by collecting fees
“And that Google still gets the fee when this advertising money is stolen by fraudsters makes Google complicit with the fraudsters to some degree. It misaligns the interests again. It's a conflict of interest.”
Eich: Ten on-chain microtransactions provide enough entropy to fingerprint a user
“So for our system with users getting ad revenue share and publishers then getting creators on YouTube, getting, you know, tips or recurring donations, just 10 of those or so could fingerprint you as a user, right? If there are a few bits each, that's enough bi…”
Eich: Virtualizing credit cards natively in browsers can deconstruct Amazon
“And if we virtualize the credit card, then we can actually put e-commerce in the browser. We can deconstruct Amazon. Every site, without having to change its merchant JavaScript, which is not going to happen easily, can have an option where you can use somethi…”
Brave is developing Themis, a zero-knowledge ad verification system on Solana
“So our next generation ad system, which is aiming at Solana is called Themis. It uses a black box accumulator in the browser to build up an authentic, cryptographically secure ad performance set of numbers that can then be put into a zero knowledge proof syste…”
Eich: Brave pays users 70% of ad revenue via Basic Attention Token
“It also involves something we talked about from the beginning and we prototyped in Bitcoin, and that's the basic attention token system for users who choose to participating in Private ads that are anonymous, but that pay them 70% of the revenue and that let t…”
Eich: Opera will endure despite Chinese ownership and trust concerns
“Opera will always be there, kind of like Brave, even though it's now Chinese-owned and a little less trustworthy just in Western eyes.”
Eich: A Brave vendor shared user data with Experian without consent
“We have a vendor at Brave that has information on people. It shared it with Experian. We didn't know this was happening. I don't know if there's a privacy law that was breached. We believe their privacy policy was breached by their own action or their setting …”
Brave agreed to make Solana default for agnostic multi-chain dApps
“We like Solana. We agreed to make it the default for multi-chain dApps where they don't express a preference for default and the user doesn't.”
Eich: Using Electron for Brave was a mistake due to sandboxing issues
“Using Electron was a mistake. It wasn't designed for a browser. It turned off the sandbox. That was horrifying to discover, and it's kind of bloated and replaced a lot of middleware files in the Chromium code that Google was Breaking through internal API shift…”
Gilbert: Audius, Brave, and MetaMask are crypto's top three applications by users
“Audius is crazy. It has six million users, and it's a crypto application. Like, it's, I think, that Brave and MetaMask are probably, like, the three largest like, applications by user count in all of crypto right now.”