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Ever noticed how unbelievably slow your browser is (even Chrome)? Try reading an article on a site like Forbes and have ten thousand ads pop up? Try streaming a sports game and having the same issue?
There’s a way around this and a pretty clever solution that allows you to monetize your own attention — an option which gives you the power to opt-in to ads for payment or refuse them. It’s the Brave web browser.
Brave offers a sleek and extremely fast browser by removing ads from web pages. Targeted ad notifications can still come in from the top right side of the screen, but you either opt-in to the ads which earns you money or close the notifications to refuse the full ads. The payment comes in the form of the Basic Attention Token (BAT), a cryptocurrency designed by the Brave team to allow users to monetize their own attention. Watch the video below to see how simple it is.
Admittedly, the payout method is centralized under the management of Uphold. Despite the lack of a truly decentralized payout method, the Brave browser is certainly the best of the options…
