It's a crypto scheme created by a pedophile. Basically you install a special client with a built in adblocker, which replaces the ads with their own and profits off of them. Yeah, it's as scummy as it sounds. What's worse is that you can pay them in their cryptocurrency to disable all ads, you know, the thing it's actually doing from the very start, which still leaves the original websites/advertisers without any financial compensation.
The worst part is that they market it as "you can choose to watch ads and we'll pay you!" which isn't even true because the only thing you can do with BAT is that aforementioned adblocking capability which is, again, what the client is already doing, so the benefit is just an illusion.
In summary: You get nothing, the websites get nothing, Brave guy gets all the money from people using his browser and spends it on CP.
whats wrong with brave?
i think its because the owner is some sort of deranged libertarian, but i might be wrong
It's a crypto scheme created by a pedophile. Basically you install a special client with a built in adblocker, which replaces the ads with their own and profits off of them. Yeah, it's as scummy as it sounds. What's worse is that you can pay them in their cryptocurrency to disable all ads, you know, the thing it's actually doing from the very start, which still leaves the original websites/advertisers without any financial compensation.
The worst part is that they market it as "you can choose to watch ads and we'll pay you!" which isn't even true because the only thing you can do with BAT is that aforementioned adblocking capability which is, again, what the client is already doing, so the benefit is just an illusion.
In summary: You get nothing, the websites get nothing, Brave guy gets all the money from people using his browser and spends it on CP.