• brb@lemmy.world
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    2 years 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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        2 years 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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          2 years ago

          Yep, exactly my thought too. I’ve made too many hops but none of these products truly offer privacy.

          I moved from Telegram to Signal for security only to learn more and more about the holes in Signal. At least Proton Mail is fine.

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          2 years ago

          You can use pihole and route your traffic there with a vpn such as tailscale to block ads and more

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      2 years ago

      I thought it was supposed to be the best privacy browser but after reading these comments my view has changed completely and have switched all devices to Firefox.

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      2 years 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.