The ads offered are based on your interests, as deduced from your browsing behavior. There are 2 ways, one from the Brave icon located on the right side of the browser bar and another from the page menu as shown in the image.įrom this tab you can configure if you want to activate or deactivate the rewards, the amount of ads that Brave can show you per hour, if you want to contribute with the content creators making automatic donations or give a tip to a specific website, twitter account or youtube channel. Once the browser is installed, we must activate the BAT rewards. Once downloaded we have 2 options, to win BAT as a user watching advertising, or as a content creator.
The first thing we have to do to earn Basic Attention Token using Brave is to download the browser from the official website. To reward its users, Brave anonymously monitors the user’s attention (but does not collect any information about them). These blockages of unnecessary information for the user makes the website load up to 6 times faster than other better known browsers such as Chrome, Safari or Firefox. This open source browser blocks malicious ads and data capture crawlers. We could define Brave as the evolution of internet browsers. Thanks to the Brave browser, you can win this cryptocurrency just by browsing the internet. BAT is an ERC 20 token whose mission is to improve the efficiency of digital advertising. How do these reward ads appear on Brave?īasic Attention Token is a cryptocurrencythat is attracting more and more interest.
Subscribe to TechRepublic’s How To Make Tech Work on YouTube for all the latest tech advice for business pros from Jack Wallen. You no longer have to worry about seeing notifications of earned BAT or concern yourself with having to earn tokens by viewing ads. Once you’ve disabled the feature you don’t want used on your Brave browser, you can close out the Rewards page and you’re good to go. To disable either the ads or auto-contribute feature, tap the associated On/Off slider for either or both.To disable all of the features, tap the On/Off slider for Brave Rewards.On that page, you can either completely disable brave rewards, disable the earning of tokens via ads, or the auto-contribute feature.Open Brave and point it to brave://rewards/.So if you want to use Brave and disable the Rewards program, let me show you how. Even with this feature, Brave’s a solid browser. This isn’t really a way to avoid ads, it’s a way to monetize your viewing of ads. In order to gain BAT tokens, you have to view ads on sites and not a lot of sites are participating. Thing is, it’s not exactly what you might expect. Once a month, Brave Rewards will pay out to you what you’ve earned and, if you opt in, send a percentage of your earned BAT to the sites you’ve visited, so long as the sites participate in the program. SEE: Kubernetes security guide (free PDF) (TechRepublic)īrave uses a rewards program–aptly named Brave Rewards–built on the Basic Attention Token (BAT) such that as you spend time on the internet the browser will tally the time you spend on sites, using local storage only. One way Brave tries to stand out among the competition is how it handles ads. It works, but in typical fashion, is attempting to be more than it should. Since Brave is open source, I don’t have to battle with the idea of using even more proprietary software–which I’m not against.įor the most part, Brave is like every other browser out there. Brave is based on the Chromium engine, so it renders pages quickly and reliably. That hunt has taken me to Chrome, Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi, and now Brave. Since Firefox has started yet another downward spiral, I’ve been on the hunt for a new browser.
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