8 reasons why you should switch to Brave IMMEDIATELY

Tired of agendaposts plaguing your everyday feed? Don’t want to hear about teh latest Groomercord bullshit? Instead, here is something different for once: Your latest and greatest Brave Shilling thread, this time not stolen from /g/ Here is why, coming from a long-time Brave user, should switch to Brave:

1. You are NOT using a big tech product

Services and products by internet giants constantly dominate the web. While they try to provide their best, it is always refreshing to have different choices. The advantage of having competitors like Brave makes sure that big tech does not dictate users' choice.

Also, tech giants are often considered to be anti-competitive. But users opting for alternatives such as the Brave browser, encourages healthy competition for them, which is a good thing.

1. It respects your privacy

If you are browsing the web, your activity is being tracked in one way or the other. But not everyone wants to give away their information online. Brave practices a better privacy policy by not collecting users' browsing activities.

1. Beats Censorship

Most of the web is centralized. In other words, the resources you access is usually stored in a central storage location. Brave integrates the IPFS protocol that lets you access the decentralized web.

It allows users to utilize a peer-to-peer network where you can access resources using IPFS. This guarantees that no one can control or restrict access to a resource. Hence, with this feature integrated, Brave browser can be an effective tool to beat censorship of the web.

Also don’t forget that Brave comes with built-in Tor.

1. Built-in Ad Blocker

What is the biggest problem with ad blockers? Ironically, it’s the fact that they block ads. While everyone agrees that blocking annoying pop-ups, flashing gifs, and autoplay videos is a good thing, there is an underlying problem: the entire Internet economy relies on those ads. Google? The search engine giant is actually an advertising company (as an example, you can read here about how much information Google tracks on your searching habits). All your favorite blogs and websites? They rely on paid ads as their primary source of income. If you take away those ads, you undermine the entire economy. Of course, this assumes that spying on your browsing habits to customize ads - also referred to as the Internet surveillance economy - is the best way to operate the Internet. Not everyone agrees, which is why Brendan Eich, the creator of Javascript, founded the Brave browser. Brave features a unique approach to Internet ads. Any creepy or unwanted ads are blocked outright, with the only exceptions being ads you choose to view. It is similar to the approach other ad blockers take, but to avoid the same problems for Internet content creators, Brave rewards users for viewing those ads and lets them pass those rewards on to the creators they enjoyed as tips in the form of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT). The result is a radically different Internet. Creators, like the news agencies, small bloggers, and channels on YouTube and Twitch that we all know and love, can be rewarded simply and directly. No more obscure Google Ads middle-man, just a direct contribution from consumers to creators, all powered by Brave’s privacy-based Internet economy.

1. Basic Attention Token

Brave Rewards is built on the Basic Attention Token (BAT), a new way to value attention, connecting users, content creators, and advertisers. ... Once a month, Brave Rewards will send the corresponding amount of BAT, divided up based on your attention, from your local browser-based wallet to the sites you've visited.

Normally, you support your favorite websites by not blocking the advertisements displayed. And with Brave, you get another way to help the creators of a website, through Brave Rewards.

It is completely optional, but with Brave Rewards, you get to earn tokens when you visit and spend time interacting with a website. You will find a wallet integrated with the Brave browser, which stores these tokens, and you can contribute them to your favorite website*, if you choose to.

Also, you can add funds to your wallet using any currency and spend them to support the publishers registered for Brave Rewards.

*Note that rdrama.net is a Brave Verified website

1. Integrated Services like Brave Search

Brave is not just a browser, but it pitches several other offerings like private advertising solution, decentralized web, and some more. Brave Search is yet another something impressive by them. It aims to be an independent search engine and focuses on providing privacy-friendly search results.

Instead of using a crappy browser that invades your privacy, Be Brave!

Sources:

https://brave.com/learn/best-ad-blocker/#building-a-better-internet-brave-and-the-future-of-ad-blockers

https://makeuseof.com/reasons-brave-browser-becoming-popular/