Otherwise, you can allow Brave Rewards to donate a portion of your BAT monthly, to the most-visited websites. On Reddit, Twitter, and various other sites, you can click the triangular BAT icon to tip a content creator. In the menu, you can also choose to automatically donate the BAT you earn from surfing the web to your favorite content creators.

Advertisers also reap benefits as Brave boasts an impressive 14 percent ad click-through rate. These ads appear as push notifications on your desktop or in the background when you open up a new tab.įor you, that might be extra $7 to $10 a month paid out in Brave’s native cryptocurrency, Basic Attention Token (BAT). Through the Brave Rewards program, users opt into pre-packaged Brave ads that will pay them for views, distributing 70 percent of ad revenue back to users. But for now, Brave Search ads are not yet eligible for Brave Rewards. You can opt out of them by upgrading to Brave Search Premium.Įventually, they plan to expand the Brave Ads ecosystem to include search ads that reward users for viewing them. There are ads in Brave Search but the ads are privacy compliant. “We don’t track you, your searches, or your clicks. Of course, it’s fully anonymous and private. You can also choose to use a search engine that doesn’t track your search history, such as the Brave Search engine or Duckduckgo.ĭuckduckgo is more established and fully featured, but Brave Search looks promising. These extensions are easy to access by clicking on a puzzle piece icon on the top right-hand side of the browser. You can also install Google Chrome extensions, including the MetaMask wallet.

Most other web browsers, such as Apple’s Safari, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, and Opera, also allow you to export bookmarks which can be imported into Brave. You’ll still have all of your bookmarks and settings, without any hassle. Setting up Brave Browser is also very easy because you can import your Google Chrome or Firefox settings and data. Brave is built upon the open-source Chromium code, which means its reliable and fast, but unlike other Chromium browsers (Chrome, Edge and Opera), it’s built with a privacy focus.

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