• brb@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I never understood why anyone would use Brave, the payouts are small, the utility of the crypto is zero, and watching/seeing adverts is a nightmare. I honestly believe that blocking all advertising and sending a small monetary amount to someone providing value is a better way of supporting the people you care about.

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      1 year ago

      I use Firefox over Brave simply because I have much more trust that Mozilla won’t suddenly turn into dicks.

      (Also because Firefox is awesome now, and because competition in the browser world is a good thing, but it’s mainly the probably-not-being-dicks thing)

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      1 year ago

      the payouts

      wait, what? I was just looking for a search engine that does least tracking and brave was recommended a few times, so I use that, but have never seen any ads or been offered any payout? Am I doing it wrong? (for the record, if they’d offered me payment to watch ads I would have never even installed it in the first place, and will now be removing it as my default on firefox)

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think people use Brave for any crypto stuff all that much. I use it to block ads.

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        1 year ago

        I used it for the perceived level of privacy they pretended to offer. Guess I’m switching to Firefox tomorrow.

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      1 year ago

      I made roughly $1200 using Brave at work.

      It is optional to open the ad or not and you do get paid half what you would even if you don’t view the ad. I turned on max number of adds per hour and clicked no most of the time. Took me maybe 10 seconds per hour while I was getting paid to work already. Sure the per ad money got poor over time, but at first it wasn’t so bad at first and I was making a couple bucks per day. Converted that to Bitcoin every month and that has nearly doubled in price. So if I converted to USD right now I’m at $1200 for a grand total of under 9 hours worth of work over 1.5 years. So my hourly pay plus clicking no to the ad I made $166 a hour on average.

      My company’s software stopped working with Brave about half a year ago and now I use Firefox.