A week using the Brave browser
Before I get into it, here is the link so you can download it yourself:
What is it?
In a nutshell, brave web browser is a privacy focused browser; it blocks adverts and trackers. It’s available for android, iOS, Mac, Windows and Linux. On the desktop versions, you get paid if you opt-in to have brave adverts pop-up (at most 5 every hour, and you can configure that down)
Why?
This is something that I feel more strongly about a few weeks after using brave, than I did before — but it’s actually quite annoying seeing as many adverts as we do, and it’s really creepy that receiving confirmation of my order from a particular online shop will mean three weeks of seeing endless adverts about that shop.
I’m also not able to give an answer to ‘why not’ — Brave is Chrome. It’s as fast (even faster.. which I’ll come on to..) as Chrome, has all the same features (you can even install Chrome plugins etc). The only downside is its somewhat spotty synchronising between different devices (i.e. my phone and laptop tabs, history and passwords don’t sync up quite as well).
So.. is it any good?
As I said above, I’d say it’s at least as good as using chrome. It might save you time, too. When you open up a new tab, you get this view:
Short the staggering amount of ads blocked, the 8mins of estimated time saved (calculated by not loading ads) is probably exaggerated, but still quite a lot over a few weeks.
The other cool thing is, being paid. The whole process is better explained elsewhere, but in short: you enable brave rewards, every hour you get a max of 5 ‘popups’. Just by receiving those ad popups, you are automatically allocated ‘BAT’ a cryptocurrency.
Anything else?
Yeah actually, when you open up an incognito window you get this as a nice extra
Here’s a link again.. Enjoy!
https://brave.com/dll414
