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Gab is creating its own web browser using Brave’s open-source code replacing the BAT token with Bitcoin Lightning Network integration :

https://decryptmedia.com/6719/gab-forking-brave

"The company has built its own web browser—a forked version of the open-source Brave browser—and will be releasing it within the next few weeks"

At 5$ a month, and that is most likely for US citizens or at least Western world I doubt many will take the offer since right now I would probably pay myself 5$ to not see all those annoying ads every time I browse around  ;D. I've never understood people that don't use adblocking add-ons
Besides, I wonder how long is going to take before they are overrun by bots: one, two days?

Actually, I've been using Brave for the past couple of days and I don't see the ads and don't have to click on anything. I still get paid though, about 1 BAT per day.

So you are using brave browser and getting 1 BAT per day?
While a few days ago i just install brave browser and i found the BAT wallet but the ads section just written coming soon

If GAB make a new web browser like brave i would definetly try it

Wait, how does that work? Don't you have to opt-in to their rewards program? That should mean they'll be showing you non-obtrusive ads.

If you're a fan of that business model though, then this would be better. BAT is essentially useless and IIRC they have plans to introduce KYC measures in the future.

That will be a plus to the company and many will like to use the Browser too. One thing i personally love about Brave browser is, that of the unsolicited ads that will never show up while browsing the internet, like others. Many will use the Browser in as much they will get paid for doing so, hope this will be general and not restricted to a particular region or zone.

As long as they don't force KYC down to your throat the idea looks great. Gab on the other hand is a bit hated by the establishment. I've never used their platform but I assume they are a bit too free compared to facebook...

If they manage to use this idea right gab can be as big and maybe even bigger than fb in a few months.

Think about it, people share almost all of their personal data on fb and fb makes money from it while paying NOTHiNG to its data providers. (Users  ;D)

People will move in drones from fb to gab but like I said, I don't want to deal with KYC horse shit.

The idea is pretty good, but need to have to figure out how it will be implemented and what the reward will be. If there is an archaic interface, then I definitely will not use this browser. Moreover, as you understand, the reward will be symbolic. It seems to me that this browser will not cause much attention from the crypto community. Especially if it is rather mediocre. It seems to me that the Sharpay project offers a better idea. They integrate their buttons on the partner sites, clicking on which both the site owner and the user receives a reward in cryptocurrency.

Are you sure that you dont have to see ads and do not need to click anything to get the BAT reward? AFAIK it is like a pay to surf when a user is getting paid by watching ads through the browser.
By the way, I'll wait for the forked browser and lets see how this new browser is better than Brave browser.

As others said, that is pretty weird..
Is there some kind of option in the browser where you view only certain ads on certain websites, like the adblock whitelist and you simply haven't hit those pages? Or it is a daily fixed payout like an airdrop?

Anyhow the whole things is ridiculous.
They claim others have privacy problems while they basically do the same thing:


This is such a load of bs...


Oh, KYC!!!
What could be better, hand over your address and age to the company that knows everything you do on the internet.
Bet they could sell such profiles for 10x times what they "pay" you.

I disagree. Who in the heck has even heard of gab? This is the first time I am actually hearing of it honestly. For 5 freaking dollars, I am not willing to give up my privacy by submitting KYC just like you.

I don't think anyone in their right mind would want to waste their time fiddling around with such a browser for such a small amount of money.

Here is a tutorial for the ad viewing service :
https://whatisbat.com/2019/04/25/how-to-turn-on-brave-ads-and-earn-bat-with-the-brave-browser/


For now KYC is only for creators (i.e. youtube publishers) not for regular users viewing the ads.
As of now, there is no way to withdraw your BAT, it will be implemented later. I don't see any reason why there should be a KYC for that.
They actually claim to want to decentralize more and more their project.


Same here. I'll never feel comfortable using any browser anyway.
Brave is based on Chrome so I'm definitely having trust issues regarding privacy here.
But I'd rather use the same exact browser (Brave and GIB would use the same code) and be paid in BTC.


100% sure. I promise you I have had zero interaction with any ads for now. I don't know if it's a bug or if it's supposed to be this way but until now I litterally got paid for doing... well nothing.

The only real issue I've had so far is that there seems to be a daily cap, a maximum of 21 ad notifications per day... which in itself might be reassuring.

Can i ask whats the point of browser like Brave ? I know it blocks adds and offers to watch some adds with rewards . But i think anyone can create plugin for lets say Chrome and it will do same thing :/

i just follow the tutorial from the link you gave above, but it turns out there is a limited region that ads work.
maybe BAT not accept an Asian country for the ads Rewards?
Edit:
i just search on google and found this


Maybe the difference for me just like the brave browser has a wallet built in it

It really sounds interesting would like to see what it is.

I use Brave for some time, but I never check my BAT wallet until now. As far as I could see user will not receive any rewards if Brave Rewards is not turned on, and in my case this was disabled. User need to click on colored triangle in address bar and manually turn on this option. But as feryjhie quote those rewards (ads) are not available for all, they target only Tier 1 countries. I also see that no ads are available in my region, which is rather discriminatory, but it show it is all about money (15% to users - 15% to Brave - 70% to publishers and content creators).

They will add new countries based on number of users in each country, so small countries do not have great chances to get on this list. I hope Gab projects will not follow the same path, project only for selected countries it's not something I personally support.

Well, that ain't bad news. But, I wonder how do the dev earn with their website without those paying ads? As we all know that these ads paid through flashing in the web browser. Anyway, whatever it is I do believe on this statement since it support the article being shared by OP.

And may the team and the founder achieve the target and goals.

Would be great for blocking ads and getting paid at the same time. However, why undergo KYC. I think I have been seeing this before and this also goes with referral. A lot of people are promoting this in our country, if I am not mistaken.

You can just install any ad blocker to any browser. That's not really a strong feature of Gab. Payrates would also be pretty low. It seems like those 5$ that were mentioned on this topic are way overestimated. As I remember, any kind of service that gave some rewards for doing almost nothing had incredibly low payrates. I guess that you would have to use this browser for a year in order to get enough funds to pay tx fees for sending those rewards to someone.

I'd stick to my normal browsers with adblockers please. The payrate is low, the stakes are high and they'd be asking for KYC information which is not a pretty good sales pitch if you ask me. I've seen browsers with rewards system in the past that had become plagued with bots on just a couple weeks after launching, and perhaps this would also be the case for this new contender on browsers with rewards.

Mine is activated unfortunately, I'm not in the Tier 1 region and it only shows "Coming Soon" on my end. And as far as I know, Brave have announced initially that they are going to pay with Bitcoin, I don't what made them switch to BAT though. They also blocks mining scripts in the background based on this github repo (https://github.com/brave/ad-block/commit/5be124382023a9cc81ae8a741e4b6c5695ae78bc). So let's see how this 'forking' would do, specially Gab chooses Bitcoin.

Well this is really interesting but let's hope that they wouldn't need a KYC and wouldn't invade our privacy.
But this would be a great way to earn while surfing and I think it would be great for some internet shop owners.

Fortunately, you can use Brave as it is right now without all the ad rewards and such, and I assume you wouldn't need KYC with all these off. The rewards thing by viewing ads is just an option you can turn on and off on the browser settings.

Also, without all these rewards, Brave is still a damn good browser in terms of privacy due to it's tracker browsing feature. I've always preferred Chrome's UI over Firefox, so Brave was a godsend(as Brave is a modified version of Chromium).

I guess it not about adding specific country but it all dependent on how much advertisement/publisher that they are getting from that region.
It does not make any sense to show ads targeted for region X to be shown on region Y. (if lot of global business join them, then might everyone will get chance.

That might be interesting, especially considering that Gab essentially started as a social media platform, their expansion into the browser market might actually generate something worthwhile for their company after all the various payment processors tried to close them out. I don't know if this is a viable strategy, but I'm sure there will be some people who will start using the browser, especially if it does include a share of the advertising revenue. I might consider using it in that case, even if it is just something like $5.

Replacing the BAT token will probably also be a net benefit for them. Gets one less shitcoin taking up the market and helps generate actual value.

As far as I know the restrictions on the location really will be.Not everyone who wants to make money on viewing advertising will be able to get such an opportunity.

Now I'm getting pissed about this. I've been stuck at 21 notifications for more than 24 hours and I know I'm not the only one.
None of the 10 mods they have on reddit is answering.
Why launch a release version if it still has bugs ?

Sounds like th he Brave network had inspired another company to make a browser. Nice! I hope they pull it off, because it is always good to have an alternative of different browsers available. Competition forces the innovation to come out.

As said brave had inspired more people to go with the base plan. It is something new and a good level of competence will be there rather than an alternative. Both will focus on development, and with brave I got around 20 tokens and these can be tipped to users whom we find good in his/her contributions through some articles or other works where tipping services is integrated.

$5 a month will not do the trick. Electroneum tried it with their mobile crypto and it’s sad that it doesn’t work. I will gladly pay $5 per month to remove those ads. Most Americans and Europeans can earn that money within an hour of work and I think I will also fail. For me it’s better to play some online games (https://vegascasino.io/casino/video-slots/durian-dynamite?utm_source=ccdd) to earn that bitcoin.

Yeah, I heard Brendan Eich is not too happy about Gap forking Brave, though Brave is open-source. I think a Lightning Network version of Brave is a great idea and perhaps the founder of Brave knows it's a potential competitor.

A web browser that pays you in BTC is good but I have tried connecting my wallet with the brave browser and has never been successful. I hope this new innovation would have a simple and easy set up. To those who are thinking it's too small think again, does Google pay you browsing and with all those ads that keep popping up whiles we surf the internet, No!
This is good and I hope it becomes a big reality.

I'm so happy to hear about this. I tried Brave for a while. But I have decided that this is not a smooth browser for market conditions. First of all it is not decentralized as it should be!

I always support a new and more logical browser. Useful like Brave and more decentralized browser would be very good.

What device are you using if you don't mind saying? Brave has just been as smooth as Chrome on my Windows and Ubuntu device.

Gab isn't going to be decentralized either. Not to mention that browsers don't need to be decentralized in the first place, the world wide web should.

how its work ?
you getting pay for using their browser only? and how many hour should we use the brave browser?
from some comment it said you need to complete kyc to get your reward? if true then not worth to try

Why don't they just request brave browser to do so, there is no point of making another whole Browser for Bitcoin rewards. As we know brave browser is already a custom version of Chrome and now cab is making a custom version of brave Browser that makes no sense. The brave browser already supports all the extensions and plugins of chromium Web Store so there is no point of making another Browser why not just request brave browser to do so.

Browsers that has those features are good but  how about the security? If GAB will be rewarding users with Bitcoin I think more and more people will use it. Though not that important but still it is a nice feature nowadays. I usually use Chrome, Operamini, Firefox, UC, and CM browser and heard about the said Bitcoin rewarding browser just now. When it comes to add-ons Chrome is my choice of course due to it's metamask feature.

Of course you don't expect the adverts and click baits to start pouring in now. It's too early and that will piss people off. But you don't expect them to run this charity without adverts for a long time, do you? Even Santa Claus will get wearied out doing that.

I even suspect they may bring in sundry charges and subtractions in the near future to make the reward given out a waste of time just like faucets are today.

The lighting part is nice to read but i wont see many people running fast  to change there favorite browser.  Maybe they made some tweaks and tunes that can pull them over but we have to see when it will be released.

Its because brave browser has its own coin which was bat coin  . they only see bitcoin and other cryptos as a rival but i dont like the idea of stealing someones code and then use it for their own good  . your right , why they dont confront bat/brave about their idea making such browser with a reward feature ?  


I didnt know that things but if that was true then thanks for that info   . i think its legal to create or develop your own browser but as long as it isnt copyrighted to other existing browsers  

practically a fork of the brave browser but with a wallet in bitcoin litghtning i only hope that unlike the brave the satoshi earned can also be withdraw and not just reinvest in the various projects, we'll see...

I also used brave browser for a month. I followed steps correctly but I do not receive any amount yet. Though it needs kyc, it does not really a problem when you have thing to used to verify the account. Hope that there would be specific rate for those who used the browser for long hour.

I am also getting to be a rabid fan of the Brave browser...it is good, faster and of course ad-free. Plus it has a rewarding system for its participants. The feel is actually more of Chrome though Brave is lighter in my experience. The only thing I hate before is that auto-correction is not a part of the browser...good thing there is actually an extension for the same purpose which I installed. I see a good future of Brave as long as they continue to innovate and listen to what their users are communicating to them.

I can only welcome this, even if I'm not a big fan of the people who are behind Gab.
I'm personally not using Brave myself, I'm just too used to using Firefox, but a number of my friends have switched to Brave completely.

Doubt that I would switch to this fork of Brave, even though it would be kinda cool to use a browser that supports LN.

I thought Gab was made up almost entirely of Nazis and kiddy fiddlers?

It would take rather more than a dribble of lightning to use something that might be feeding everything I type and do back to people of that calibre. All the same this is exactly what LNs should be used for so it's going to be very interesting to see how it pans out. There's been a vast amount of lightning talk but not enough action.

You go first.

Wha???? I have no clue what is the profile of the average Gab user, but ..nazis? Seriously?


The same reasons why bitcoin gold, bitcoin diamond, bitcoin platinum, bitcoin shit and bitcoin super craig shit exist...
Everyone wants their own browser/coin and they do this either for a moment of fame or in most cases because they smell a load of $ coming their way.


It is actually based on Chromium, which is also the base for Chrome, small and big difference at the same time  ;D