No, I had high hopes for that, but it seems Brave is happy leaving it as essentially useless.

I’m thinking something like a reloadable credit, and you’d opt in to certain sites. Mozilla would keep track of anonymized visit data and send the creators a payment every month or so. If they don’t opt in, there’s no payment, but if they do, the website would not show ads.

It could be an extension for non-Firefox browsers as well so it could have greater reach. But this would need to be done by a larger org like Mozilla to get sites on board (e.g. start with paywalled news sites), otherwise I’d try my hand at building it.

Brave could be the one to do this, but they seem obsessed with their cryptocurrency. A simple payment in regular fiat would likely be a lot more attractive, especially if it wasn’t tied to a specific browser.