Brave browser 1.0: Users can earn advertising – and reward other websites

Brave browser 1.0: Users can earn advertising – and reward other websites
The lion is the heraldic animal of good. Image by Christopher Michel via Flickr.com. License: Creative Commons

After years of development and beta publications, the browser Brave is now officially at version 1.0 arrived. According to the creators, the internet is transformed as we know it. With which she doesn’t even stack too high.

Sometimes it says that not a single ICO has ever created something constructive. Brave punishes such claims lies. The project, which was launched by JavaScript inventor Brendan Eich in early 2016. Now the team lays down version 1.0 before the promises with which Büave started actually implemented.

In essence, Brave is a clone of the Chrome browser that focuses on keeping disturbing habits of website makers away from the user: the browser integrates an advertising blocker, encrypted with HTTPS-EVYWERE with all websites and switches cookies from third parties. According to his own statements, this alone makes this 3-6 times faster than other browsers. But that’s not all: through an integrated wallet, Brave pours out the Basic Attention Token on websites that visit the users of the browser – provided the user coins have paid in. The concept is promising, but often difficult to implement in the practice for website owners, as the co -spondade describes in a test.

With version 1.0 activates Brave a new, exciting features that was promised right from the start: the users can view Brave advertising and receive 70 percent of the advertising revenue. You can then use these income to pay websites. In other words, with Brave you don’t have to have bitcoins at all to support your favorite website with virtual tokens. The transformation of the online economy runs entirely in the background-and brave itself deserves a lot.

Even with your own advertisements, Brave make sure that you disturb the user experience as little as possible: you can choose how many ads you look at per hour, the possible number ranges from one to five indicators per hour. According to the information, the feature is available for the release for iPhone and iPads, but is already included in my brave version for Ubuntu. Apparently it has not yet been activated on Android, with Windows I haven’t tested it yet.

This means that brave does justice to what Brendan Eich announces: “Today’s internet is broken and the users suffer the most. They are persecuted, marked and exploited; This not only violates privacy, but also makes the website slower, empties the batteries and ensures a terrible internet experience. Meanwhile, publicists lose income at a record pace of a few gigantic super companies and too many advertising intermediate men … “Surveillance capitalism had plagued the Internet long enough. “Users, advertisers and publicists finally have enough, and good is the answer. Brave 1.0 is a newly invented browser that transforms the web in favor of the user, with a private advertising and payment platform based in the browser.”

Then the transformation can start. With a good 8 million users so far, Brave is still far from turning the advertising industry on the Internet – but it has ever reached a critical mass perhaps even critical mass.