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Can I just pay the sites that I visit with money directly? I would say "can I buy BAT" but I don't like that this makes brave the middleman.
by infogulch 6y ago
Can I just pay the sites that I visit with money directly? I would say "can I buy BAT" but I don't like that this makes brave the middleman.
- fastball 6y agoBrave is only the middleman with advertisers. You can buy BAT directly from any crypto exchange (or better yet exchange ETH / any ERC20 token for it on a decentralized exchange). Then you can put that BAT into a wallet on your Brave browser, enable a setting, and every month your browser will automatically disburse the BAT proportionally to the content creators you are consuming, as long as they have their own BAT wallet. That's what I do. I don't opt in to the Brave Ads. But you can if you want, and it's worth pointing out that Brave's ad system is very privacy focused, in that all classification of you as an ad-target happens in your browser. The only thing sent to Brave is basically just a list of keywords. Then Brave lets advertisers bid on putting up ads for people with certain keywords.