![]() I do love all of the add-blocking and other features. It really rocks that! The BAT rewards aren’t all that critical for me, maybe only $10-20 / month worth (maybe less now that they’ve decreased the payout).Just like the Firefox browser, the Brave browser is free, open source and focused on protecting users’ privacy. Brave is a relative newcomer to the world of browsers: its maker, Brave Software, first debuted the browser in January 2016. Security and Privacy Security and Privacyīlocks third-party tracking cookies by default In this article we’ll compare our Firefox browser with the Brave browser in three categories: privacy, utility and portability. The Brave browser, like so many others, is built on the open-source Chromium code by Google. ![]() Open-source means anyone can use the source code and piggy-back on top of it to build whatever they want - like the Opera and Edge browsers. But it doesn’t mean that all Chromium-based browsers are equal or are themselves open source.īrave differentiates itself from the other Chromium browsers by focusing on user privacy - specifically by blocking trackers, scripts, and ads by default. So when you use the Brave browser, the areas of a website that would normally display ads appear as blank spaces. ![]() In some instances, pages don’t load properly, which will require you to either choose a different browser or flip the ‘Shields Up’ setting to ‘Shields Down’ which turns off the privacy and security protection. The Internet as a whole is largely paid for by display advertisements, which keeps the actual content you want to view free. ![]() Brave has attempted to upend this model by encouraging its users to opt into Brave’s own reward system, which in reality, is its own ad platform. Once a user has opted-in, Brave will display what they call “privacy-respecting ads” for which you can view and earn what they call a Basic Attention Token a.k.a.
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