CNET claims you will be able to earn money by posting on Reddit using Brave browser. I call bullshit!

I really wanted Brave to become a great product emerging from the blockchain space but as time went by I realized that it is really a gimmick of something we already have.

The browser itself came to life by using the open source code of Chromium so you could say that it is just a chrome clone, nothing more. There were arguments that it is easy to use and has a built-in ad blocker but that is also not very innovative. Opera did it first...

I won't go into their shilling schemes that they use on Reddit because that would take away valuable time (mine and yours). No need to prove something that is very obvious. I want to focus on the latest news regarding this browser. Cnet published an article that got posted and upvoted to the top in the /r/cryptocurrency subreddit. It is very obvious that it is posted by someone from Cnet or Brave because the link has an UTM tracker in it.

This article claims that you will be able to cash in your Reddit and Twitter posts. All you have to do is post quality content and people will tip you for it. Simple right? Well, not really. Monetizing a website that is used by billions of people can backfire quickly. That is the main reason Reddit still didn't do it and won't do it in the near future for sure. The main reason for this is because monetizing content sharing is a risky business. Once people who have a ton of time on their hands realize that they can make money just by making posts we will have a swarm of shitposters and reposters working on their bots and exploiting this system as much as possible. If you don't believe me just check a few random accounts here on Steemit.

I will take a wild guess that every user will have their own account where you could see some stats and credibility as something that would weed out the spammers. Without that, every poster would be equal and the spammers could spam freely for as much as they like. If we get a rating system then we will also get websites that offer tip-for-tip exchanges where you could tip someone and they will tip you back in order to get more credibility or whatever measurement this system may use. Whatever credibility system they use will be flawed because we live in a world where this possibly can't work.

Issue number two is Reddit itself. Keep in mind that this form of monetization is third party and it could hurt Reddit and Twitter. Enabling someone to earn money from content sharing will encourage spam, as I said earlier and it will cause problems on the mentioned websites. They will have twice as more work on their hands and I am sure they won't like it. The end result would probably be Reddit banning Brave users from the website or something along those lines because they have no interest in this monetization. Only Brave and their users are gaining something but giving nothing back to the websites they are monetizing.

All of the above, ladies and gentleman is only the tip of the iceberg. The proposed system simply can't work and that is why I am calling bullshit on this "news". Not to mention that Cnet is well-known for spreading malware back in the 2000's. So much for credibility...

Brave is a mediocre project, nothing more. It is a browser that offers something a medium or advanced users have had for years now. I am talking about user privacy and no ads. There is nothing innovative here but please prove me wrong. I would like to see a constructive counter-argument in the comments.