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If you're interested in this, I suggest the new web browser Brave. It does a great job of cleaning up all the ads & protecting your privacy. I also haven't ran

If you're interested in this, I suggest the new web browser Brave. It does a great job of cleaning up all the ads & protecting your privacy. I also haven't ran into sites that block me yet like I do when using an ad blocker on Chrome. You can choose the search engine you want to use unlike this extension. It's also built on top of the same code as Chrome so you get all those benefits as well. Brendan Eich (JavaScript & Mozilla) is the CEO. Slightly off topic, Brave also has an interesting feature as well to help support content creators. Since a lot of content creators rely on ads, you have the ability to add a small amount of funds to a crypto wallet that Brave can use which get distributed to the websites you visit the most over the month. You can enable or disable this for specific websites as well. I think this is a great idea but it may have a hard time catching on. I think people will have a hard time adding money to a virtual wallet to pay for something they "think" they are already getting for free. At the same time I love the concept as it is a way for you to reward people for good content & create a disincentive for bad content.

radicaldreamer 9y ago
I love Brave but I've found battery life to be much lower when using Brave on my MacBook than either the latest Chrome or Safari.
- NotQuantum 9y ago
  It drains my 2017 MBP about 40% faster than Firefox Quantum. I wonder if it's mining crypto in the background...
chiefalchemist 9y ago
How about a simply browser extension that let's you donate to page / site X? This would also be great on GitHub and GitLab. You could buy credits in bulk so the credit card transaction fee only happens once. And then, if the page has an account, dole out those credits as you surf. Probably not massive amounts of money but better than the ads based model. At least there would be a option.
- djsumdog 9y ago
  There have been attempts to do this. Flattr and Patreon come to mind. I currently actively support a few people on Patreon.
  - chiefalchemist 9y ago
    Both are close, but not what I'm looking for. I want...a browser extension...that recognizes (via code on that page) a site/page that's registered within the network...the extension icon turns green to let me know...I click the icon...the dropdown shows me my current number of credits...and let's me donate to the current site... The site doesn't pay anything to be in the network (sans maybe a low sign up fee to mitigate spam). The members pay, tho' I'd have to think about that model. What I want is semi similar to an old school PayPal button but more micropay friendly (low cost) and is more (social) network-centric. No can do? p.s. FWIW this is something I imagine say GitHub doing for starters and then branching out from there.
kerberos84 9y ago
Brave also started to get annoying by always asking for donations to content creators. So I think i will drop it and continue FF Quantum + uBlock + noScript

radicaldreamer 9y ago

I love Brave but I've found battery life to be much lower when using Brave on my MacBook than either the latest Chrome or Safari.

NotQuantum 9y ago
It drains my 2017 MBP about 40% faster than Firefox Quantum. I wonder if it's mining crypto in the background...

chiefalchemist 9y ago

How about a simply browser extension that let's you donate to page / site X? This would also be great on GitHub and GitLab. You could buy credits in bulk so the credit card transaction fee only happens once. And then, if the page has an account, dole out those credits as you surf. Probably not massive amounts of money but better than the ads based model. At least there would be a option.

djsumdog 9y ago
There have been attempts to do this. Flattr and Patreon come to mind. I currently actively support a few people on Patreon.
- chiefalchemist 9y ago
  Both are close, but not what I'm looking for. I want...a browser extension...that recognizes (via code on that page) a site/page that's registered within the network...the extension icon turns green to let me know...I click the icon...the dropdown shows me my current number of credits...and let's me donate to the current site... The site doesn't pay anything to be in the network (sans maybe a low sign up fee to mitigate spam). The members pay, tho' I'd have to think about that model. What I want is semi similar to an old school PayPal button but more micropay friendly (low cost) and is more (social) network-centric. No can do? p.s. FWIW this is something I imagine say GitHub doing for starters and then branching out from there.

kerberos84 9y ago

Brave also started to get annoying by always asking for donations to content creators. So I think i will drop it and continue FF Quantum + uBlock + noScript