I’d like top introduce you to a new tool-of-the-week that can help you in so many ways and that is especially true if you are in the crypto market space.
by Kevin James Culp
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Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. Brave is a privacy-focused browser, which distinguishes itself from other browsers by automatically blocking online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings.
Is Brave free?
Yes — Brave is free! You’ll always be able to use Brave without paying in either money or your personal information. Shields protects you from tracking as you browse the web. Brave Rewards lets you earn tokens by viewing ads and pays it forward to the people who create the stuff you love online. All for free. If you want to support sites in Brave without earning tokens through ads then you’ll have to use your own money. Everything else is on us — and Brave has a lot of features.
Is the Brave browser safe?
Security-wise, Brave is at least as solid as Chromium, which means it’s also potentially as safe as Chrome. Of course, no browser can be 100 percent safe, but rest assured that if you’re asking: “Is Brave a safe browser?” then the answer is “Yes.” There are a number of security features included with Brave.We all know what’s wrong.
As a user, access to your web activity and data is sold to the highest bidder. Internet giants grow rich, while publishers go out of business. And the entire system is rife with ad fraud.
BRAVE SHIELDS FOR PRIVACY – Block data-grabbing ads and trackers
The vast bulk of websites and ads include software that tries to identify you. They want to track your every move across the web. Brave blocks all this, allowing you to browse freely.
Learn more about Brave Shields
BROWSE AT WARP SPEED – Blocking harmful ads and trackers means a faster Internet
Brave loads major news sites up to six times faster than Chrome, Safari and Firefox on mobile and desktop.
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REAL PRIVACY – Browse much more privately with Tor*
Other browsers claim to have a “private mode,” but this only hides your history from others using your browser. Brave lets you use Tor right in a tab. Tor not only hides your history, it masks your location from the sites you visit by routing your browsing through several servers before it reaches your destination. These connections are encrypted to increase anonymity. *Available on desktop, coming soon to mobile.
Learn more about Private Browsing
IPFS INTEGRATION – Browse without fear of censorship from outside influences
Also, iPFS is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to make the Web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS has been integrated into Brave’s desktop browser. Brave’s users can now access content directly from IPFS by resolving ipfs:// URIs via a gateway or installing a full IPFS node in one click. Integrating IPFS provides Brave users with a significantly enhanced browsing experience, increasing the availability of content, offloading server costs from the content publisher, and improving the overall resilience of the Internet.
Learn more about the IPFS integration
A BETTER DEAL – Tip and contribute to websites directly through Brave Rewards
Today, you can donate tokens to your favorite websites. Coming soon, some creator sites will feature Brave Ads, which helps them earn more ad revenue than existing ad models.
Contribute to 300000+ creators on Brave Rewards!
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BRAVE REWARDS – Earn frequent flier-like tokens just for browsing
Turn on Brave Rewards to earn frequent flier-like tokens for viewing privacy-respecting ads. You can set the number of ads you see per hour. Currently you can support your favorite web creators with your tokens. But soon you’ll be able to spend tokens on premium content, gift cards, and more. ∗
Brave blocks invasive ads by default. If you turn on Brave Rewards, you can earn tokens for viewing Brave Ads. Also, these ads aren’t like the ones you see on the web. They’re completely private: none of your personal info, browsing history or anything else ever leaves your device. That’s because Brave downloads the whole ad catalogue and selects the right ads for you locally on your device.
And, when you see an ad Brave picks for you, you earn 70% of what the advertiser paid, guaranteed. Brave Ads look like system notifications. In addition, they’re not distracting or intrusive, and they’re not mixed in with the pages you read online. And you get to pick how many, and how often to see them. Learn more.
So, how much can I earn with Brave?
When you use Brave Rewards, you earn Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) for each privacy-respecting ad Brave shows you. A typical, engaged person who uses Brave as their everyday browser can expect to earn about $5 of BAT a month. Next, this figure will vary over time and by region, depending on a variety of factors.
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Thanks for Reading and Carpe Diem My Friends!
SOURCE: Brave, Wikipedia, Forbes, CNN
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Copyright © 2021 The Brave Authors. All rights reserved.Brave is made available to you under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL) and includes open source software under a variety of other licenses. You can read instructions on how to download and build for yourself the specific source code used to create this copy.
NOTE: We do not profit in any way from the free trial or a paid service. We simply love the company and are users ourselves in many cases.
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