Currently, there is no way to actually make money by using Brave, it's essentially Chrome with some adblocker pre-installed.
The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
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Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#12former user of their product. originally presented to me as a chrome alternative with the ad-block built right into the browser itself and not as a javascript extension. But as the product has evolved, they've changed in ways to monetize it themselves. While they still block ads, they're deciding which ads they want to block now based on how sponsors compensate them. As a bonus, they're throwing you back a bone to pu…
> While they still block ads, they're deciding which ads they want to block now based on how sponsors compensate them
Not sure what your motivation is here in asserting something which is completely false.
Ads are blocked by default, and their research team is pioneering new approaches to ad blocking. See for instance https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09155
The browser is also open-source: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#13former user of their product. originally presented to me as a chrome alternative with the ad-block built right into the browser itself and not as a javascript extension. But as the product has evolved, they've changed in ways to monetize it themselves. While they still block ads, they're deciding which ads they want to block now based on how sponsors compensate them. As a bonus, they're throwing you back a bone to pu…
article says that they will eventually pass revenue to publishers. So currently they will take the ad revenue from publishers and keep it for themselves? Seems pretty shitty. There are sites I choose to support and this seems to remove that possibility even if they are serving clean ads.
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#14Can't wait until someone automates it.
That happened with AllAdvantage. People wrote programs like MyAdvantage to simulate web browsing to accrue credit.
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#15This seems like one of those ideas that's great in theory but not in practice. I don't care about paying or even being paid when browsing the web...I just want to be left alone. Also this particular implementation is rather shady. See podcast: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/francis-pouliot-on-th...
I frequently find myself confronted by paywalls and demands that I turn off my ad blocker. I can usually find a way around it, but things would be so much simpler if I could just click a button to pay the site a fraction of a penny.
Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#16former user of their product. originally presented to me as a chrome alternative with the ad-block built right into the browser itself and not as a javascript extension. But as the product has evolved, they've changed in ways to monetize it themselves. While they still block ads, they're deciding which ads they want to block now based on how sponsors compensate them. As a bonus, they're throwing you back a bone to pu…
article says that they will eventually pass revenue to publishers. So currently they will take the ad revenue from publishers and keep it for themselves? Seems pretty shitty. There are sites I choose to support and this seems to remove that possibility even if they are serving clean ads.
Don't know if things changed recently. But back when I checked Brave out the idea was that they would only replace ads for publishers that opt-in to this, and the user would also need to opt in to be shown these. And then the revenue is split among publisher, brave and user.
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#17They've literally selected for a userbase of people who dislike advertising enough to go out of their way to find and use a largely unknown browser. I doubt that the people who downloaded it to avoid advertising will sign up for this without paying them a lot.
Most people are sold on Brave due to privacy / speed / battery life.
Baking a transactional layer into the browser allows things like rewards for ad participation, but I think microtransactions to pay for gated content will be the more interesting aspect over the longer term.
I only use and recommend Brave now, but have no intention of turning on ads.
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#18So, let me get this straight. If I set up an old computer in the corner and script it to just meander around the web 24/7 using Brave, I can rack up a ton of useless BAT tokens/currency/whatever?
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#19former user of their product. originally presented to me as a chrome alternative with the ad-block built right into the browser itself and not as a javascript extension. But as the product has evolved, they've changed in ways to monetize it themselves. While they still block ads, they're deciding which ads they want to block now based on how sponsors compensate them. As a bonus, they're throwing you back a bone to pu…
Isn't Brave Ads opt-in? You can still use Brave as you have been.
Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#20Currently, there is no way to actually make money by using Brave, it's essentially Chrome with some adblocker pre-installed.
in the nightly version of the browser you can.