US Newspapers Raise Alarm Over New Ad-Blocker Brave

Financial Times: The New York Times, the Washington Post the Wall Street Journal and other U.S. newspapers are raising the alarm over new ad-blocking software that promises to replace publishers’ advertisements with its own and pay readers in bitcoin to view them. The ad-replacing plan comes from Brave, a web browser launched this year by Brendan Eich, the co-founder and former CEO of Mozilla, the web browser.