Brave, a chromium-based web browser that boasts an ad-free browsing experience, will now pay users to watch ads. That’s right—the ad-blocking browser will now be running ads, but in a more thoughtful way.
While it runs on the same tech and looks like Google Chrome, Brave doesn’t share its distant relative’s problematic data tracking. Brave is stripped of any data collecting processes, and actively blocks the activity tracking that many ads and websites use to collect user information.
Ads are annoying and data tracking is alarming, but most of the websites we visit each day run on ad revenue, and blocking those ads makes it harder for these websites to operate. Brave’s solution? Paying you to watch ads and sharing that money with your favorite websites.
Brave creates ad “catalogs,” and uses machine learning to tailor your ad experience based on which ads you view and interact with, thus cutting out the middleman between advertisers and users. The model is entirely opt-in, meaning these ads will be disabled by default. The ads you view will be converted into Brave’s cryptocurrency, Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), paid out to your Brave wallet monthly.
All ad information is stored locally, and never shared with the advertisers nor the domains you visit (though you can choose to share the revenue you’ve generated with websites you frequent).
Best of all, Brave will still give you an ad-free browsing experience; rather than Brave’s ads being displayed on web pages
How to enable and Brave Rewards
- Download and install the latest version of Brave.
- Open a new Brave browser window.
- You can enable Brave rewards when you first run the browser. Click through the welcome screen’s setup cards. The final card contains an explanation of the ad model and opt-in settings.
- You can also enable, disable, and customize Brave Rewards in the browser’s settings. To find these, click the Menu icon in the browser’s upper-right corner, then click the “Brave Rewards”
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- Turn on Brave Rewards: this will enable and disable all Brave Rewards options, including ads, BAT generation, and auto-contribution.
- Turn on ads: turns ad notifications on or off. You won’t earn BAT from ads if this is off. There are other ways for earning BAT, however, including frequent complimentary offers from Brave.
- Ad settings: this option lets users set the number of ads they see per hour, anywhere from 1-5. More ads viewed means more BAT generated. You can make 10$ per day
Block data-grabbing ads and trackers
The vast bulk of websites and ads include software that tries to to identify you. They want to track your every move across the web. Brave blocks all this, allowing you to browse freely.
Other browsers claim to have a “private mode,” but this only hides your history from others using your browser. Brave lets you use Tor right in a tab. Tor not only hides your history, it masks your location from the sites you visit by routing your browsing through several servers before it reaches your destination. These connections are encrypted to increase anonymity.
Earn rewards and support content creators
Tip and contribute to websites directly through Brave Rewards
Today, you can donate tokens to your favorite websites. creator sites will feature Brave Ads, which helps them earn more ad revenue than existing ad models.
You can withdrawal BAT tokens by using UPHOLD site