Wish for "clean" Brave Browser

Nostromo:

Is that what I said?

Sorry I read this while at work and thought you were @Menkork. If you were, your response would have implied that position.

Nostromo:

read my comment again

Nostromo:

Why would you think any for profit company would have particular times where they would not need money?

Maybe I am wording this incorrectly because you are not understanding me. Please re-read what I said above with good faith or read onwards to see what I mean. When I said

Nostromo:

anonymous598:

But whether they need it right now isnt exactly clear.

I was saying that there being a loss is unlikely and isn’t clear, not that Brave can magically operate at a large loss for a time while simultaneously saying otherwise. I.e., you can translate it as “But whether they would be in the red right now as a result of making Brave Origin free is questionable”). For profit companies need money to survive. Yes. If Brave were for-profit, it would therefore also need money to survive. I agreed already, yes. But again, as I have reiterated previously, this does not follow that Brave Origin itself needs to be 60 dollars. There are other options to offset that loss. Brave would need ~16,666 sales of Origin to offset a 1 million dollar loss, meanwhile a 1 dollar increase for a premium subscription that has 1 million subscribers (which is just ~2.13 percent of Brave’s daily active users (47 million[1])). There’s likely other ways that people who are paid to handle this can think of.

For the record, this is still assuming that Brave Origin operates at a loss without the 60 dollars, which is highly unlikely in my opinion. Brave makes money through partnership deals, Brave Search API subscriptions, crypto transaction fees (1%), premium subscriptions, and Brave Ads.[2] The only thing Origin affects is Brave Ads, but the majority of people who will buy the Brave Origin browser will have had their ads turned off already. Why? The niche community Origin appeals to is already the same niche community that doesn’t generate revenue to Brave via Brave Ads. No one is going to pay 60 dollars for a browser unless they really, really feel that they subjectively get their money’s worth, and the only community that this would appeal to is the affluent anti-bloat privacy crowd. If it isn’t a 100% overlap, it’s as far as it can be to be negligent, but we will never know because we don’t have Brave’s numbers.

But again, assuming that there is a loss, it’s just a bad financing strategy to offset it by selling Brave Origin at 60 bucks. It makes your company stick out like a sore thumb to sell something others offer freely. The appeal is limited in market size (as discussed above) and is only a one time transaction compared to their other revenue streams.

Nostromo:

But you can choose to believe whatever makes you happy.

This wasn’t very enjoyable to read. How would you feel if I responded passive aggressively to you? It isn’t like the opinion I’m expressing is the end of the world. If you have anything like that to say, feel free to just PM me instead.

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