As some of you know, I’m in the cybersecurity field. I’m always looking for better and safer ways to do things in the interwebs. I try to avoid Google, as much as is possible (it’s pretty hard actually), and one of the things I do is avoid using Chrome, and avoid using Google for my search engine.
One of the browser alternatives that I like is Brave. It has ad blocking and Tor baked into it, in addition to stronger privacy protections.
But one of things I really like is that it shares its profits with the websites you browse, as compensation for their ads getting blocked. It’s a much more democratic approach to funding websites.
However, websites have to sign up to receive the revenues. There are payments pending to Bill’s YouTube channel as well as PJMedia (Instapundit lives there, among other things): So I would encourage you to use Brave if you can, and also to let your fave websites know there is free money on the table if they register with them. Mahalo!
2 replies on “Brave Browser for Privacy and Profit Sharing”
I switched to the Brave browser over the last two months and have seen what you mention, ad revenue sharing through notifications, along with the disabling of trackers and other less-than-secure monitoring of my online activities. They even tout on the launch page upgrades to https:// secure sites as well as time overall time saved in skipping all the tracking when your accessing site information.
What I found to be truly interesting is that while on Youtube, I can load a playlist (or play later) and run the list (play all) and Youtube can no longer influence my viewing experience with ads before, during, or after that they decide I need to see.
I haven’t seen an ad on Youtube since switching to Brave… apparently it disables it. Sadly, if ads don’t play, the content creators likely don’t get revenue. However, Youtube doesn’t get to throw 10 minute ads at content that they don’t like soaking up the ad revenue in the process; a double-edged (+/-) sword for Alphabet (Youtube/Google). Brave allows you to tailor your options to allow things to run or not on a site by site basis.
I considered posting this as well. Kudos on beating me to it!
David
I don’t know what’s going on with the website, but all the formatting and images I included in this post got stripped out. Event after I edited it to put it back in.