'Brave' browser starts paying bitcoins

[pedrog]

Someone testing this?

Any feedback?

[Herbert2020]

Someone testing this?

Any feedback?

yeah, i tried it for a while and it looks good and although i have not tried the payment system (because i don't want to give $5 to any sites yet ) but the surfing is smooth and fast and also i feel like it should be technically faster than Chrome and Firefox because of how it is programmed.

here is a good article to read if you are interested: http://www.networkworld.com/article/3030134/microsoft-subnet/benchmark-tests-brave-browser-ad-blocker-chrome-firefox-ie-11.html

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[Elwar]

Someone testing this?

Any feedback?

I have been using Brave as my main browser for about half a year now.

The latest update they started accepting bitcoin donations toward websites. After ignoring this for a few weeks I finally decided to add $5 worth of bitcoins to my Brave wallet. Just so that at least someone is doing it and to see how things work as far as them awarding sites that I visit. You can opt out of some websites that you might not want to award (like if I visited Huffington Post for an article or some other liberal site).

They are going through a few phases. The first phase is accepting bitcoins from users and distributing to sites. The second phase will be adding their own ads and getting paid by advertisers. The last phase is paying users if they choose to view their ads.

I think this is good overall toward funding websites in the future. If the whole Internet adopted this the revenue of Google would now be going through Bitcoin as ad revenue is the major source of Google's funding.

[FiiNALiZE]

I've been hearing about this, it's awesome that they actually finished it.

If Opera starts to do the same thing like they stated then Bitcoin will become even more expensive because of Opera's large userbase.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/opera-browser-may-consider-integrating-bitcoin-implements-built-in-adblock

[eternalgloom]

I've been hearing about this, it's awesome that they actually finished it.

If Opera starts to do the same thing like they stated then Bitcoin will become even more expensive because of Opera's large userbase.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/opera-browser-may-consider-integrating-bitcoin-implements-built-in-adblock

That would be pretty great news, I could also see Firefox doing something like this after Opera starts doing it.
Chrome would never implement something like this, since Google relies too heavily on ads itself.

How large is Opera's userbase exactly?

[TheUltraElite]

I've been hearing about this, it's awesome that they actually finished it.

If Opera starts to do the same thing like they stated then Bitcoin will become even more expensive because of Opera's large userbase.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/opera-browser-may-consider-integrating-bitcoin-implements-built-in-adblock

That would be pretty great news, I could also see Firefox doing something like this after Opera starts doing it.
Chrome would never implement something like this, since Google relies too heavily on ads itself.

How large is Opera's userbase exactly?

So I guess this is going to be a game changer for the browsers used by people. Even more if they put up android and iOS versions as well. The market of smartphone is much more large than PCs and laptops.   

But personally I feel like blocking ads but maybe most of the people will like it and use it. But not me for sure