@PonziScam you should learn about ponzi scams. For it to be ponzi, it requires you take money from investors. You invested no money in this. Therefore can’t be ponzi.
Also have to advise that the TOS you agreed to also stated you have no cash value in BAT and that there is risk of support being lost and all. You agreed to that in your understanding and chose to participate.
Please don’t tell me what I should do! This is again definitely not the way to treat dissatisfied customers!
There are more ways to do some kind of scam that are similar to a ponzi scheme but have no real name. If you think a little bit about it, maybe you can figure it out on your own, what MIGHT be happening here in the background. I didn’t say that I know for sure that this is the case though.
And finally, I don’t care what TOS I agreed to. This is not the way to treat your customers. End of story!
Actually, it would be very similar if the publisher of an online game just deleted my account along with every achievement I made in the game without me making any violation of the terms and then after I complain they’d just tell me that I agreed to it in the TOS that they CAN do that. Yeah nice, thank you very much!
Hey dude! But we can still use the browser for free.
you cant do anything about it but to follow unless they do something about it before April comes which is unlikely. Once April comes all those BAT have no value unless donated or transferred into a wallet. On my side, it really hurts since I’ve been saving for a year now and waiting for them to open up PH for registration. If they just announce the move they’re doing earlier during 2022 i would have time to adjust and accept what would happen eventually but for now its not really great to start 2023 with that update
Thanks, I’ll file a ticket just to see if something can be done. Even so, I will probably just stop using it since I won’t have control over whom I tip nor will I have the option to eventually cash out if I decide I want to (which I’m not sure on yet).
That’s only after April. You still have ability to control tips until then. Once vBAT is gone, then that’s where control is lost.
I’d have no problem with the devs terminating vBAT whatsoever, if they’d just let everyone keep what they already earned until there is some means to connect to a wallet available in their region. For example they could just say everyone looses their vBATs 2 months after registration is available in the respective region. This would mean it’s still April for all people in regions where it’s already available, but later for other regions.
The fact that they don’t explain why it’s not done that way and why they need to terminate vBAT so urgently is what makes it fishy in my view. Combine that with not being able to control where tips are going anymore, and the picture looks pretty much complete. If this doesn’t look like some big red flag which says “scam” on it, I don’t know what does. That’s why I will stop using it completely.
That’s just it, though: I like to be able to control how I tip people. Some creators I want to give more to than others and BAT is a way to do that (especially since I don’t really like Patreon-type services). I understand removing the ability to cash out. I didn’t even know that was possible until more recently. What bothers me is that loss of control over how I tip. I kept auto-contribute off all this time for that reason.
Plus, the fact that Rewards is being changed to something that is, frankly, not as privacy-friendly nor wise (as custodial wallets are, generally speaking, a really bad idea in general) really bugs me, especially since Brave is such a Web3 and privacy-focused company otherwise.
When I connect the browser to the wallet, it says that your region is not available.
I live in Georgia, I don’t have any contact with the banned countries, maybe you can explain why my IP address is included in the bans?
I’d recommend removing your IPs from your post ASAP. Very dangerous to post your IP in public. It’d be wise to only give it to Brave in a more private support ticket.
True this is not a Ponzi it is a fraud. A fraud is where you promise to deliver something and make as if you do but you never do.
Your posts are now being flagged it seems. Brave do not like the push back they are getting about them stealing the rewards.
Look, I get that you’re frustrated but maybe try a less confrontational approach? I’m really frustrated too but I’m still here because I’m just voicing feedback calmly.
how did you register after getting ip banned?
No, you should just avoid antagonizing moderation with rude posts. Being frustrated with a system doesn’t give you the right to be a (pejorative word for male anatomy). If you actually care about voicing feedback, cut the martyr complex and come back to present that feedback in a civil, mature manner.
I suspect that you won’t do that, though. People that rage like you are, they’re usually more interested in causing conflict and trying to make themselves look like they’re victims of a non-existent crusade.
Ah, so you admit you just want people to feel sorry for you. Got it. I’d say “have a good day” but you’re probably not going to be able to do that since you can’t own up to your rudeness.
well, then you have failed miserably. your misunderstanding of the agreement between brave and it’s users is on you, not brave. find a new browser, get a life.
you might want to look that word up. hard to have dignity when you don’t want to honor the agreements you make. you (and the rest of us) agreed to not hold brave responsible for the loss of bat according to the user agreement.