Brave: Block Ads, Browse with Comfort, Get Rewarded with Crypto
Browse Faster, Literally Block Everything
Brave is a platform that enables the user to browse the web at a much faster pace in comparison to other leading browser by blocking out ads and trackers that would otherwise violate your privacy and cost you time and money. In comparison to just creating an adblock extension for the existing browsers, they created a whole new browser because extensions face performance and API limits. Furthermore, popular extensions tend to host counterfeit extensions that are very malicious. Brave creating its own browser creates opportunities for them to fully invest in the speed and privacy capabilities. In order to be versatile, Brave is also willing to start designing a program extension for users that find themselves preferring to browse in other browsers instead.
Brave Payments
Brave Payments is a system that is implemented into Brave, where it enables the user to donate to their preferred content creators anonymously. You just need to create a BAT wallet, and put in your desired amount. Afterwards, the system automatically deposits micro-donations to the websites that you visit based on the time that you devote to them. One can even "pin" their favorite sites to receive a certain amount every month. Brave Payments also does not know your transaction history, therefore they do not have access to your browsing report.
Blockchain and BAT
With the introduction of the cryptocurrency BAT, the blockchain solidifies itself as an integral part of the Brave experience. BAT, or Basic Attention Token, is a utility token that is derived from the Ethereum technology that can also be utilized as a unit of account between publishers, advertisers, and users on a fresh digital services and advertising platform that is based on the blockchain. The token is neither a commodity or a security, but rather something that is used to integrate the Brave browser, the BAT wallet, and other related blockchain-related functionality.
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How will it Change the Industry?
Brave directly compares their browser with many other popular browsers, where Brave claims to load major news sits 2 to 8 times faster than Chrome or Safari on mobile, and nearly 2 times faster than Chrome on the desktop.
Brave also addressed the cost of your own data when loading the ads and tracking whenever you visit sites. Even if one has an unlimited mobile data plan, they would still be paying, as their time and information also retain value.
What is its Current State?
- Brave Browser has recently integrated Tor into their new Private Tab Feature! Check out the full article here!
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Project Details
Project Name: Brave
Website: https://brave.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brave
Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/brave_browser
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Having been annoyed with the RAM usage of Chrome for the longest time, I might actually give Brave a serious go.
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This comment has been curated.The Brave Webbrowser is one of the best i have used, and what's so fancy about it and keeping me smiling alone, is the time shown when pages are loaded.
Brave avoids all the necessities other browsers have in common and haven't said farewell to due to monetization and sneaky collection of you personal data being sold to third parties.
While I think brave has a bright and stable future, also due to the fact that they update the browser game regularly, major competitors like Firefox might bring change to the game.
Unfortunately there are some sites that do not work with the Brave Webbrowser, especially sites that have really bad and old coding (my way of describing why the site doesn't work, because of lacking coding knowledge and only judging sites by it's practicability and aesthetics), I am sure they will also get rid of these minimal issues in the near future.
I do recommend it, one reason alone is because you can choose to support developers and independent sites who really are thankful for every penny they get by displaying annoying ads, which are being avoided through Ad-Blocker and leaving them with much less than they were actually expecting.
Thanks for this article.
I have switched to Brave a while ago and I am totally in love with it. It is super fast and works really well. I even use it on the iPhone. This new Tor integration sounds cool, I am hearing it here first.
Off topic: I see you use SteemPress for posting this article. How is the experience to do that directly from your own WordPress blog?
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best browser,
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I will try this new browser. Thanks for the info.
Downloading now. Let's have a look. Thanks @creativecrypto
Brave seems to be able to be a part of the next browser generation. Once again this platform is based on the blockchain technology, and it's using a crypto rewarding system. All our day to day activities is changing in a positive way for more security and speed thanks to the blockchain technology. Just like we do at Blockbasis we pledge to protect user and transaction information when sending and receiving cryptocurrency via email, for which we based our services on the blockchain.