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Lex Luthor · 28-03-2020 10:26am #1

anyone else using it?

I've had in on the laptop for a month or so and collecting some BAT occasionally

I've just verified the Uphold Wallet but the amount shown in the wallet doesnt match what the BAT token icon shows

rapul · 28-03-2020 11:15am

Yeah I have it on my phone, I just donate whatever Bat I get to Wikipedia tbh

Donegal1234 · 28-03-2020 9:01pm

Lex Luthor wrote: »

anyone else using it?

I've had in on the laptop for a month or so and collecting some BAT occasionally

I've just verified the Uphold Wallet but the amount shown in the wallet doesnt match what the BAT token icon shows

The BAT payout occurs on the 5th or each month but usually doesn’t arrive in your uphold wallet until the 6/7th

makeorbrake · 29-03-2020 12:25am

Yeah, Ive been running it for quite a few months now.
For me, it's much better than the others. I also like the idea that its a way to introduce people to crypto and tokens without ever being aware that its implicated. It's nice to see a crypto project taking on real world use.

rapul wrote: »

Yeah I have it on my phone, I just donate whatever Bat I get to Wikipedia tbh

Just be aware that with wikipedia, they're refusing to accept submissions for a couple of well known crypto's. Disappointing given its supposed to go out of its way to be even handed but nothing in life ever is.

CelticRambler · 29-03-2020 9:07am

Have been running it for a while. Not really impressed with it as a browser (especially its unconfigurable "top sites" thing on the home page) but have it enabled for BAT rewards and have been collecting a steady trickle month-by-month (a lot more this month, thanks to and Amazon and eBay campaign).

Until those last two started appearing, the selection of ads was pretty tedious - all "crytpo for the sake of crypto" type offers (oh, and the Nexo savings/loan account which I'm still considering). The most useful reward so far has been a month's free Prime trial; I'm leaving the BAT to pile up until one or other of my favourite "free" sites decides to accept donations.

unkel · 29-03-2020 10:35pm

CelticRambler wrote: »

The most useful reward so far has been a month's free Prime trial

LOL, that's not a reward. You get that from Amazon itself all the time (I sign up for it at least once a year and cancel whenever it expires, never cost me a cent)

melatonin · 14-09-2021 10:08pm

anyone still use this? do you get much in crypto for using it and how would you find it to Chrome?

Potatoeman · 15-09-2021 10:34am

I found ad blocker on chrome would just stop working every so often so I moved to brave. I turned ads to minimum so I only get the small pop up ads when not playing anything. It’s faster than chrome but I still use chrome for some plugins.

Perpetual_Burn · 15-09-2021 10:46am

Been using it pretty much exclusively for over a year, doesn't weigh on your system like Chrome does, is quite similar so the transition is quite easy. I've found that RTE Player doesn't seem to work on it, so I use Chrome in that case. The built in ad blocker is great, I also have the Chrome extension Adblock installed on it too, so zero ads across the board. Highly recommend.

el diablo · 15-09-2021 5:38pm

I've been using Brave (on Android and laptop) for at least three years and it's been great. The built in as blocker works well and I never need to use Chrome (deleted it) or any other browser. Still earning a small amount of BAT from ads too (approx. $500 since I started using Brave).

Rewired · 15-09-2021 5:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117893730#Comment_117893730

Been using it for a few months, get about 6 BAT per month across desktop + mobile (€5 or so). You have to enable a few extra settings to get all the ads (10 ads per hour and enable background notifications on mobile). Brave news gives extra BAT as well, if you scroll through that.

It's pretty great all round, was using Firefox + uMatrix before, but the built in ad blocker does the job. Nice to have all my Chrome add-ons back. Can't say it's worse than Chrome in any respect.

Rewired · 15-09-2021 5:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117893679#Comment_117893679

I have all my Chrome plugins working on Brave.

Sparkling Gamorreans · 15-09-2021 6:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117895937#Comment_117895937

I've been using it for over a year at least. In the past 12 months it's barely paid me 1 BAT on my mobile and laptop respectively. In the beginning I briefly got about 10 BAT per month. I have all those settings enabled as you outline.

Rewired · 16-09-2021 4:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117896115#Comment_117896115

Not enough info to really know what to make of that. If it's 1 BAT per device per month, then it seems low, but I guess it depends on device usage? I'd be getting about 10-15 ads per device per day which is kind of maxed out for me with work from home and there are also ads on the new tab pages which I think you have to enable and ads on the Brave News feed.

Sparkling Gamorreans · 16-09-2021 8:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117900260#Comment_117900260

How do you enable the things you speak of in your last sentence?

Rewired · 17-09-2021 11:34am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117901160#Comment_117901160

Mobile: Settings - New Tab page - show sponsored images (mobile)

Desktop: Settings - New Tab page - customise background images - show sponsored images

The Brave news feed is currently only available on desktop.

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