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by edaemon 3307 days ago
What's the incentive for a user to switch to the Brave browser?

What advantages does it have over a different browser using ad- and tracker-blocking plugins, especially now that the Brave browser allows ads from these ad providers?
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altern8tif 3307 days ago
Aside from the built-in ad-blocking/privacy features, Brave also allows you to pay publishers you support through their payment system.

It seems that with this ICO, Brave users can also start earning tokens (ie. Basic Attention Tokens) when choosing to view ads on certain publishers' websites. If I'm not mistaken, this new model is targeted to launch by the end of 2017.

http://www.coindesk.com/web-browser-brave-to-launch-ico-for-...

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solotronics 3307 days ago
I use Brave on Android almost exclusively. Its built on Chromium with built in ad blocking.
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mdeeks 3307 days ago
Strongly seconding this. Finding Brave on Android was a huge moment for me. The mobile web is downright unusable on Chrome in Android and there are no good non-root options for ad blocking.

Firefox is dog slow (sorry FF), Opera crashes on me regularly, and I don't really trust any of the other 3rd party browsers.

Brave is basically Chrome with ad blocking.

URL for the lazy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brave.brow...

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mayneack 3307 days ago
It works well on mobile.
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