In short, I'd like to hope that Brave will continue to gain traction, and that sites like SE will endorse it both as a worthwhile revenue stream (for themselves), and as a credible alternative (for their user base) to the way corporate advertising budgets currently control much of the Internet's funding of content. I despise adverts with a vengeance, but from what I can make out, Brave represents a credible alternative way of funding "useful, highly-valued" contributors to worthwhile Internet content. If a sizable proportion of us adopted the Brave approach, that would surely be a useful additional revenue stream for those long-suffering guys who've nobly bankrolled the site for so many years. There must be thousands, if not tens of thousands of relatively committed (high-rep?) users across the SE network. The Brave browser tells me I spend over 80% of my time on Stack Exchange sites (it's accrued on an anonymous "per machine" basis, and this just happens to be a PC I use mostly to access SE sites), so in principle Stack Exchange is line for upwards of $50 a year just on my account (at no cost to me! :) Brave features a built in ad & tracker blocker, helps to fight phishing & malware, allows you to directly support your favorite content producers and websites through the BAT token (more on that later), and as of late June 2018 has rolled out their trial program to pay users to view selected ads from a curated ad pool. I haven't put any of my own money in, but because I allow the browser to post a couple of ads an hour using the Windows "System Notification" mechanism, I've apparently accumulated 5.5 BAT - that's equivalent to $1.68 in "revenue earned from ads". It's an excellent browser - almost identical to Chrome / Chromium, but with several troublesome niggles fixed. I've been using the Beta version of Brave for almost two weeks now, having switched from the "Stable Release" almost immediately after installing it.
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