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by apeace 457 days ago
How does Brave survive financially?
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JumpCrisscross 457 days ago
> How does Brave survive financially?

Crypto [1].

[1] https://brave.com/wallet/

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dralley 457 days ago
Also it's just a Chrome / Blink derivative. They don't actually have an independent web stack like Mozilla does. That independent stack requires a lot of developer effort to maintain.
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Spivak 456 days ago
They sell traditional browser and search ads. https://ads-help.brave.com/ The crypto thing is more a moonshot.

Instead of selling their default search engine they do their own and capture the value themselves.

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