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investigate Brave Rewards for LO website visitors

Added by Mike Saunders over 4 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

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Rejected
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Normal
Assignee:
Mike Saunders
Target version:
Team - Q3/2020
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One supporter pointed us at this: https://creators.brave.com -- if it's not too complicated to set up, may be worth trying.

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Updated by Mike Saunders over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • Target version changed from Q2/2020 to Q3/2020

So I've been investigating this, and have created an account to do some testing. Here's how it works:

  • Users of the Brave web browser contribute "BAT" tokens by viewing ads and visiting sites
  • We can collect those BAT tokens, and convert them into proper currency
  • Obviously we DON'T want to serve any ads on our site
  • However, we can still collect BAT: Brave users can send us a one-off "tip", or include us in an automatic contribution, based on how much time they spend browsing sites

Regarding the last point, we should consider enabling other sites too. The main LO website is well-visited, but people spend long visits on the blog and wiki.

Florian: Am I OK to enable Brave rewards for the main LO site (NOT adverts, just for tips from Brave users), or is there anything else you want to know?

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Updated by Mike Saunders about 3 years ago

Ticket cleanup: Florian: Just checking if you're OK with me to go ahead with this - or we can consider it at a later date.

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Updated by Florian Effenberger about 3 years ago

Sorry, that fell through the cracks
How relevant do you think this is, something you would like to spend
some time on?
I'm sceptical, but not an expert - if you want to do this, let's have a
look (but take GDPR into consideration when we load external stuff), but
from my side, not urgent at all...

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Updated by Mike Saunders about 3 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Rejected

from my side, not urgent at all...

Agreed - our donation stream is doing well, and there are some other larger projects right now (Annual Report, New Generation).

There have been other requests for donation services though (eg Patreon), so I'll gather them together into a new private ticket, and we can investigate them individually when we have time...

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