There are some very well-established players in the Browser market which is currently dominated by Google Chrome which has more than 65% of the market (around 2+ billion installs). send it certain sites, tip Twitter and Reddit users or choose to convert it into currency (which is unlikely to be a large amount). Users who sign-up to the Brave Rewards system can choose where to direct the BAT they’ve earned e.g. The hope is that, if this browser and model gains user approval on a large-scale it will eventually deter publishers from trying to profile the behaviour of their users via privacy-invading trackers.

The advantages of this system should be that it can lure new users to Brave in a crowded browser market with the promise of money and a better browsing experience and improved privacy and that websites can still find a way to support themselves with advertising without having to share the personal data of users with tech companies. Brave also sends the revenue you accrue back to the websites you’ve visited.

Users who join the system only see adverts from Brave and are paid 70% of the resulting ad revenue using Brave’s own crypto-token, the Basic Attention Token (BAT). The big difference about Brave is that it offers its own Brave Rewards system. Displays Its Own Adverts and Pays You For Viewing Them Two of the key advantages of the new Brave browser are that it protects a user’s privacy by removing ad trackers and makes browsing a faster (download time) and less distracting experience by removing adverts. Brave?īrave is a San Francisco based start-up company, founded in 2015 and led by CEO Brendan Eich, formally of Firefox. The new 1.0 browser from Brave removes ads and ad trackers and pays users through a reward system for viewing the ads that Brave presents.

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