However, the announcement didn’t mention anything about the opt-in by default feature. Last year, in November, Brave announced the YouTube integration into the Brave Payments system. Scott’s tweets about Brave angered the BAT backers who generally believe Brave did nothing wrong. The YouTuber sent a formal right-to-be-forgotten request to Brave, as per GDPR new rules, to delete the donation page (name, photo, YouTube URL, plus any donation records). In other words, the company believes it doesn’t need consent to use the URL or domain name which, in Scott’s case, is his real name and photo. Moreover, for Brave, a domain name or YouTube URL isn’t personally identifiable information. If the content creator doesn’t want to use the service, he or she has to voluntarily opt out. It seems Brave automatically opts every content creator into their system, without specifically asking for consent. That page had his name and his picture, so the donators assumed Scott created the page or, at least, gave his consent. Scott didn’t have any knowledge of this service, even though some who admire him already gave their BAT to him - or at least to a page that ‘advertised’ Scott as a content creator. No wonder he was he appalled when a Twitter follower asked him about the option to donate via the Brave Rewards service. He doesn’t accept donations in any form and is proud of his choice. Scott is a popular YouTuber with almost 1.5 million subscribers, 17,000 followers on Facebook, plus another 89,000 followers on Twitter. Tom Scott warned social media of the practices Brave is using two days ago. (Specifically, the opt-in by default feature.) Recently, the model backfired - mainly because Brave elected to use some of the shady practices propagated by the major Internet companies in recent years. The model is simple: any Brave user can support his or her favorite content creator/website by giving away BAT, either as a tip or as a recurring monthly payment, based on the amount of time spent on that particular website/page.
With the funds, he created a new business model revolving around privacy-centered Brave Browser. One and a half years ago, during the ICO hype, the creator of Javascript and co-founder of Mozilla & Firefox, Brendan Eich, raised $36 million in a matter of minutes in order to try and disrupt the online advertising industry. Popular YouTuber Tom Scott has recently found out the company behind Brave Browser and Basic Attention Token (BAT) has been using his name and photo to collect cryptocurrency donations - without his content.
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