‘Bitcoin Browser’ Brave Raises $4.5M, Readies for 1.0 Launch

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Post by 3eto » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 3:42 PM UTC

‘Bitcoin Browser’ Brave Raises $4.5M, Readies for 1.0 Launch
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Post by seibelj » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

> On the desktop, Brave provides a 40% to 60% speed increase, and a 2x to 4x speed increase on mobile devices. Mobile users see a direct reduction in both battery and data plan consumption. Brave also protects users with privacy and security features such as HTTPS Everywhere to encrypt data traffic, fingerprinting shields, phishing protection, malware filtering, and script blocking.

Maybe this is a good enough argument to get people to install it. But I seriously doubt you will get people to voluntarily pay money, which is slowly paid out as they surf the web, when the alternative is a free browsing experience with a standard ad blocker.

Also, all of their listed benefits to users is accessible on all other major browsers now with existing extensions.

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Post by anc84 » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:20 PM UTC

So with that Brave, BitGo and Coinbase get to know it all? Or do I have a new pseudonym per site? How does this prevent all my transactions being known to the parties involved or even the whole world?

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Post by recursive » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:21 PM UTC

Last time I looked at Brave, it was replacing some served ads with its own ads. I do not think that's ok.

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Post by dieselz » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:23 PM UTC

seibelj wrote: post #2

> On the desktop, Brave provides a 40% to 60% speed increase, and a 2x to 4x speed increase on mobile devices. Mobile users see a direct reduction in both battery and data plan consumption. Brave also protects users with privacy and security features such as HTTPS Everywhere to encrypt data traffic, fingerprinting shields, phishing protection, malware filtering, and script blocking. Maybe this is a good enough argume…

> But I seriously doubt you will get people to voluntarily pay money

I've always been curious about this. I'd definitely pay $25/mo if it was distributed amongst the websites I visit. Bonus points if it would distribute it more heavily to the smaller sites than the bigger ones.

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Post by mdrzn » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:25 PM UTC

seibelj wrote: post #2

> On the desktop, Brave provides a 40% to 60% speed increase, and a 2x to 4x speed increase on mobile devices. Mobile users see a direct reduction in both battery and data plan consumption. Brave also protects users with privacy and security features such as HTTPS Everywhere to encrypt data traffic, fingerprinting shields, phishing protection, malware filtering, and script blocking. Maybe this is a good enough argume…

Also, "Brave provides a 40% to 60% speed increase" compared to WHAT? They may even be comparing it with Internet Explorer 6 for all we know.

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Post by Overtonwindow » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:27 PM UTC

I love Brave. I'm still locked into Chrome out of habit but I'm slowly trying to push myself over to Brave. It does a much, much better job ad blocking natively, and it's getting better with every release. The primary reason, however, is I like the idea of controlling how ad revenue is used. I think the idea of paying people to accept ads is a long overdue.

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Post by jerf » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:27 PM UTC

dieselz wrote: post #5

seibelj wrote: post #2

> On the desktop, Brave provides a 40% to 60% speed increase, and a 2x to 4x speed increase on mobile devices. Mobile users see a direct reduction in both battery and data plan consumption. Brave also protects users with privacy and security features such as HTTPS Everywhere to encrypt data traffic, fingerprinting shields, phishing protection, malware filtering, and script blocking. Maybe this is a good enough argume…

> But I seriously doubt you will get people to voluntarily pay money I've always been curious about this. I'd definitely pay $25/mo if it was distributed amongst the websites I visit. Bonus points if it would distribute it more heavily to the smaller sites than the bigger ones.

By the time you're done manifesting that concretely, you've nearly got Patreon. Yes, it's not quite identical, but, for instance, once you accept that the site still has to opt-in it ceases to be magic.

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Post by Overtonwindow » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:29 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #4

Last time I looked at Brave, it was replacing some served ads with its own ads. I do not think that's ok.

I think that's very much ok. At least someone is paying attention to the ads, and curating them so they're not the same awful ads we've been getting. If the current browsers cared anything about our viewing experience we would never get kicked into the app store, or bombarded by some autoplay video, but we do and it's not stopping. Bring on Brave.

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Post by gadders » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:32 PM UTC

I like Brave on Android from when it was just a "bubble browser", but man alive it's flakey. Every day I get random bubbles on the screen that can't be moved or closed, or even worse, invisible full page coverage which means nothing on the screen works unless I pull down the Brave notification in the system tray to manually hide it.

2-3 times a day I have to force-close it.