> "steal from publishers" is false, users have rights to ad-block, by law and by design of the Web.
I never claimed otherwise. Ad blocking is completely legal.
> We pay publishers far more than the sub-40% they get on a good day from programmatic advertising.
Sub-40% of what? People care about the actual money they're being paid, not revenue shares of different-sized pies.
That's all beside the point though. You hold the publishers over the barrel, so they have no choice but to accept your terms, whatever they may be. You're exactly like a piracy service that offers content to users for free and then offers to pay the content owners in a token owned by the piracy service.
> The idea I'd dump BAT we reserved for users is also silly or vicious: I'd be destroying the project and my company. And the price would drop very quickly
You're obviously going to sell what you have, slowly at first for income, and faster when your scam fails.
1. We have too little share to "hold publishers over a barrel"
2. Glad you agree users have right to block, so no one is holding anyone over a barrel -- we could just let publishers get nothing. Would you retract "scam" then? Argue consistently for a change.
3. You have not in any event supported "scam". Look the word up! If you mean we are "extorting", see 2. Our users want to support their sites, we help them. This is all found money above the zero that users by right to adblock leave publishers with today. Get it?
I'm done replying; almost all onlookers are way smarter than you and they have enough info to see through your slurs. Plus, the indentation level is too deep!
I never claimed otherwise. Ad blocking is completely legal.
> We pay publishers far more than the sub-40% they get on a good day from programmatic advertising.
Sub-40% of what? People care about the actual money they're being paid, not revenue shares of different-sized pies.
That's all beside the point though. You hold the publishers over the barrel, so they have no choice but to accept your terms, whatever they may be. You're exactly like a piracy service that offers content to users for free and then offers to pay the content owners in a token owned by the piracy service.
> The idea I'd dump BAT we reserved for users is also silly or vicious: I'd be destroying the project and my company. And the price would drop very quickly
You're obviously going to sell what you have, slowly at first for income, and faster when your scam fails.