The collect money on someone's behalf, without that person knowing. It's a scam. It would be like me taking money on behalf of you. Only I wouldn't tell you. And now someone thinks they are paying you by going through me.

Seems like a scam.

Blocking ads and depriving publishers of income is a scam. You are stealing from content creators. BAT gives more revenue to content creators than Google ever would.

> Blocking ads and depriving publishers of income is a scam.

But this is literally what Brave does by default.

I'm not trying to take sides in this but here is a relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999