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

Post by sp332 » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

Mahn wrote: post #11

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…

It doesn't make much sense to be honest. I've heard about this browser a few times now and I still have no idea how is it supposed to gain traction. The performance/bandwidth benefits of less shitty ads can be had by simply disabling flash and using an ad blocker, and otherwise average people just aren't going to care to switch. As far as I can tell the only reason investors threw $7M at them is because Brendan Eich…

Post by seren » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 5:08 PM UTC

Post by icebraining » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 5:11 PM UTC

jerf wrote: post #8

dieselz wrote: post #5

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> 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.

Post by sp332 » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #25

sp332 wrote: post #22

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I want to support the sites I visit but I really dislike ads. I subscribe to a few but it would be a pain to set up individually for every site. Other people are also worried about being tracked online. This lets you conveniently support sites as you browse, without being tracked.

I wonder how can they pay the site you visit without tracking your visits to those sites. EDIT: apparently they use Anonize, that's interesting. https://anonize.org/assets/technology.html

Post by DaemonHN » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 5:22 PM UTC

Overtonwindow wrote: post #9

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.