How about, ‘still no.’
Besides, I'd need a helluva incentive to use a browser with such a stupid name.
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
#32Brave is just an intermediary that replaces ads with other ads. It's an adnetwork delivered as a browser that creates ad inventory on top of the page instead of within it. That being said, the tokens are basically worthless. This is not what the digital advertising industry wants and Brave is not going to get any decent advertisers with this. They'll end up with the same shady affiliate/performance marketers running…
This was tried during the first dot-com boom as well! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage
I remember some friends using it with some tools to move the mouse around so they could get paid without staying in front of the computer.
But it was very little money and it was probably costing more electricity than the money they were getting but for a teenager it was ok.
Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#33former 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…
Someone else accused this of being a pyramid scheme. But this sounds more like a protection racket. Beautiful ads, govnah. Would be a shame if somfin' 'appened to 'em.
That's what AdBlock Plus did...
Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#34"Today, there’s no way for users who receive BAT for viewing ads to swap their digital currency for dollars, but Eich says Brave will partner with cryptocurrency exchanges to make that possible." So people can pay to buy tokens but can't sell them, seems legit.
Unfortunately, MLMs are legal, and since a service is being done for pay (ads count as a 'service') then this is probably legit. But I thought the point of Brave was to pay content authors. Wouldn't a simpler and more consistent solution be to make it so that if a viewer received a payment for viewing ads (man that is hard to type) that the money is held in escrow until they pay it out to a site the user has visited?…
That's the basic setup of the Brave browser. You get shown a few Brave ads every so often and you can automatically "tip" sites by setting your preferences. It's kind of like Spotify where whatever you "earn" during a month gets distributed based on the amount of time you spend on a site. You can also not tip anyone but the Brave tokens expire after a while for the end-user if not used. This is just my understanding from using the Brave browser. I should note that I'm working for a startup in this space that is pursuing a different model but I support any and all efforts to put the Internet economy back in the hands of creators and average people.
Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Integrating a digital wallet into a browser elevates money to a first-class citizen on the web. That changes everything about microtransactions. I now have one location to top up and manage my wallet and can effortlessly pay for content across the web in a consistent, familiar way. The historical approach of endlessly getting out a plastic card and typing private information into a multitude of different forms will s…
People have tried this too, and it has failed.
Which other browser has done this?
Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#36former 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.
I would be surprised if they do not make "opt out", not "opt in".
Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was tried during the first dot-com boom as well! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage
I remember some friends using it with some tools to move the mouse around so they could get paid without staying in front of the computer. But it was very little money and it was probably costing more electricity than the money they were getting but for a teenager it was ok.
I managed to get one or two checks, I tweaked the programs I was running anyway (AIM, mIRC, etc) to have Internet Explorer in the window title, so I got credit when I was doing whatever I was going to do anyway. Sometimes I moved the ad window off screen with LiteStep though :D
Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#38So, 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?
Like crypto mining through a third party? Does Brave even care as long as the person paying them thinks it's real?
Probably not but only until "they keep thinking it is real"
Re: The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
#39So, 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?
Unlikely.
The economics, fraud analysis, requirement to go through KYC / AML hoops to extract and convert to fiat would mean it's not a viable mechanism to enrich yourself.