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The opt-in ads are a bunch of shady crypto-currency things, but I love it. I've actually been making like ~$5/month from ads consistently for almost a year now.
by sam0x17 6y ago
The opt-in ads are a bunch of shady crypto-currency things, but I love it. I've actually been making like ~$5/month from ads consistently for almost a year now.
- sjtindell 6y agoCan you elaborate a bit? I'm obviously interested. I just turn on Ads normally?
- topspin 6y agoHere it is in a nutshell: By default (you can turn this behavior off if you wish,) Brave will periodically (every 120 minutes or so) popup an ad. The ad doesn't appear 'in the browser window.' On Windows 10, for instance, it pops up in desktop Notifications. The ad is a sentence of text and a button, full stop. No video, audio, animations, or anything creepy. Just a little dialog box you can click or dismiss. Every time that happens you receive BAT, a cryptocurrency, that accumulates in your automatically created BAT account. You do with it what you will but, by default, it is periodically distributed to sites that opt-in to accepting BAT.
- SwiftyBug 6y agoThus lifting the necessity from websites to display ads in them.
- ffpip 6y ago> By default (you can turn this behavior off if you wish,) It's opt in. Not default
- sam0x17 6y agoYou have to "activate" the notification to open the resulting page, or you don't get paid. But it's a quick click and close. Honestly once or twice I've actually looked at the site a bit.
- topspin 6y agoYes, 90% of the ads are 'shady crypto-currency things.' I've seen ads from Amazon in Brave though. I click on those (and some others,) not because I need reminders of Amazon's 'deals' and whatnot, but to support Brave.