

I'm continually amazed at people's willingness to give back via that page so adding the ability to take BAT donations via Brave seemed like a really good idea. It was 6 years ago now that I first introduced donations to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and remain enormously happy with that approach (although admittedly some of those items are a bit out of date). I think that your community of users would love to have this as an option. I wanted to recommend that you set-up your site (HIBP) to allow BAT donations. And then I got this email on the weekend: I am not affiliated with Brave, but it is my new goto browser.

I'm a bit passionate about that topic after declaring traditional ad networks to be evil and deciding to ditch them altogether in favour of the sponsorship you see at the top of this blog.Īnyway, yes, I had tried Brave before but no, hadn't really used it to any great extent. It works on the basis of awarding "Basic Attention Tokens" (BAT) based on where people spend their time browsing or choose to donate. But the thing that's really caught the attention of the people I've been speaking to is Brave Rewards which is an innovative way of simultaneously eschewing traditional ads whilst still shuffling money towards content creators. It also has some cool built-in stuff like the ability to create a new private browsing window in Tor rather than just your classic incognito window that might ditch all your cookies and browsing history but still connect to the internet directly from your own IP address. Why they'd ask me that is much more obvious: Brave is a privacy-focused browser that nukes ads and trackers. Rather than displaying Ads on web pages, Brave Ads appear as push notifications, as background images on the New Tab Page, or as items in the Brave News feed.I don't know exactly why the recent uptick, but lately I've had a bunch of people ask me if I've tried the Brave web browser.BAT allows individuals to reward content creators in a way that doesn’t require them to surrender their privacy.Users receive 70% of the ad revenue Brave receives from advertisers, called "revenue-sharing". People that opt-in to Brave Ads are rewarded for their attention and receive Basic Attention Token (BAT) for seeing Brave Ads.Your personal data never leaves the browser and reports are not linked to any identifiable individual or device. In contrast, Brave Ads are matched to you directly and anonymously on your device without the need for Brave to profile you.

Traditional advertising requires information about you, your behavior, pages you’re browsing and location to be collected by advertisers and other vendors in order for them to target ads. Brave Ads are opt-in and privacy-preserving.There are some key differences between Brave Ads and traditional digital advertising:
