These tokens are a form of cryptocurrency which can then be sent to participating websites as donations (or tips) for their content. If we click the button to see an ad we can earn tokens. Brave will optionally pop-up a notification in the corner of the window from time to time asking if we wish to see an ad (the frequency of these notifications can be adjusted). While Brave defaults to hiding ads from the user, we have the option of enabling ads from the browser itself.
These features cover my comments on advertising and tracking, but what is BAT? BAT is short for Basic Attention Tokens. According to Digital Trends, Brave was the first mainstream browser to pass the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cover Your Tracks test. In theory it should be difficult for a website to tell one Brave user from another. Brave works around this by randomizing its fingerprint in a way to mask its users. This allows websites to uniquely identify most users, even with cookies disabled and the user's IP address changed. It then goes even further and randomizes its own fingerprint.īrowser fingerprinting is a way of collecting data a browser leaks, such as its user agent, extension information, version, and supported plugins. Brave allows the user to right-click on ads they do see to hide them in the future, and it blocks invisible trackers on websites. It actually goes a step further than this.
I might run Firefox or Chrome for a week, but then I'm back to whatever was working for me before, often because I've grown accustomed to shortcut keys or having my bookmarks sorted a certain way.Įarlier I mentioned Brave blocks advertisements and tracking by default. Along the way I've occasionally used other browsers, either for testing purposes or when working with a client, or just to see what "this new Chromium thing is everyone keeps talking about", but I tend to be a creature of habit when it comes to browsers. The QupZilla browser got rebranded to Falkon shortly before it was put out to pasture. I used Opera almost exclusively for about a decade (from around 2002-2010), then mostly used QupZilla from then on. While I bounce around from one Linux distribution to the next like a hyper-active flea on its sixth cup of coffee, it's not very often I switch from one web browser to another.
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