A better browser: Brave

Brave is a relatively recent browser, created in 2016, despite being so young already has almost 6 million users.

The creator is the same one who created the Mozilla Foundation and his Firefox browser, he also invented the ubiquitous Javascript programming language today, we are talking about Brendan Eich.

You can download Brave in the official website here.

In addition Brave is compatible with the extensions of Chrome, in this way it has millions of extensions available from the beginning.

Brave is available for almost all OS including Windows, Android, iOS and GNU Linux distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.

In addition Brave is a safe browser, very fast and stable. They claim to be the fastest browser, although it is true that it is very fast, it is not easy to make comparisons and here every browser sweeps for your home, launching the same message, it is normal, but what is clear is that it is fast.

How to protect your privacy

You have all heard about the adblocks, that is, the extensions used in browsers, such as Adblock or uBlock Origin, these extensions block ads, some have been sold to advertisers as Adblock Plus, others are open source as Ublock Origin , but in any case its use has been popularizing for years.

Brave has a shield built into the browser, that is, it comes with a factory blocker, but it is a very special blocker, it not only blocks advertisements, it also blocks cookies from third parties (this means that if for example Amazon visits, Brave by default it will block the Facebook cookies that put you in the browser through the widgets of social networks), it also blocks scripts from third parties.

The Shield also has an innovative features and is that it blocks the fingerprint, that is, it prevents you from being tracked by how you use web pages, a relatively recent technique used not only by hackers but by all kinds of legitimate companies based on data collection. , that today are many (google, facebook, amazon, twitter, youtube, etc, etc).

Of course we can configure the shield to our liking with 3 degrees of protection for each of the features, in addition to being able to deactivate it completely or configure a specific configuration for each web, as we want.

Before we said that Brave is open source, this is very important since its code is public on Github, why is it important? Because one thing is security and another privacy. For example, Kaspersky antivirus is safe, as is the Chrome browser for example. But one thing is security and another privacy. Let’s take the example of the NSA and Kaspersky, the NSA used it, there is no doubt that it is a fantastic antivirus, but it is closed code and in the end it ended up stealing information from the NSA for the Russian government, and if a closed-source program It can outwit the NSA for years because it can outwit anyone, so the only way to be sure that a program or a code does not send inappropriate information is for that program to be open source.

In this way, Brave, like thousands of open source programs that exist, in case that violates our privacy the media would notice it because the code is public and is analyzed by computer professionals of all kinds, from specialists in security to university programmers.

The “problem” is that like the adblockers, Brave “kills” the income of the websites we visit, which is a problem, because we are damaging the websites that benefit us and that’s where the second great feature of Brave at stake, and that will be explained in the next point of this article.

And finally Brave has integrated the famous TOR, from now on when we open a new tab in Brave we can open a tab using TOR as simple as it is to access the private browsing we find in Chrome, Firefox or Opera.

TOR does not make you completely anonymous nor is it perfect but it has a layer system that conceals your IP and also the connection is encrypted, anyway the Brave shield forces https connections although the website does not have it, in this way your information will be encrypted even if you connect to http sites.

The internet advertising revolution

To solve the problem of blocking ads on the Internet, in the same Brave Shield we will find the option to block all ads, not block them, or as a third option: block native ads and replace them with those of Brave.

These ads of the Brave platform have to meet very strict conditions, to begin with they must weigh a little so as not to slow down the browsing of the users, they must also be non-deceptive ads and of course non-invasive or annoying.

This way when we use the browser we will generate benefits in a cryptocurrency that has been created for the browser itself, we speak of the BAT cryptocurrency which are the initials of Basic Attention Token, then we will see why it is called like that.

This cryptocurrency already valued in hundreds of millions of dollars, I leave here value in real time:

It serves to facilitate transactions, since otherwise it would be more expensive and problematic … in case you thought that the blockchain was just a fad.

These benefits will be accumulated in the browser, and we can configure our wallets in 2 ways, on the one hand we can leave it automatic, in which case the income we generate will be shared among the websites that we visit propriocionally at the time we spend on each one. , hence they are called “Basic Attention Token” or in English Basic Attention Token.

Or we can configure it manually, that way we can donate the money to the webs that we want.

In addition, in the future there is the possibility that part of these benefits will be left to the user, but everything goes step by step, from one phase of the project to the next, for example everything related to BAT until very recently was only available for the desktop version, we now find it in the version for Android and iOS.

Note: Not yet everyone has the option to change the ads for Brave ads, since it is in BETA version for random users, but instead they enter in the browser a few dollars each month to distribute them, this way the user becomes accustomed. It is part of your marketing program.

To end

In addition and finally, Brave has all the extensions of Google Chrome, since it is compatible, thus has access to millions of extensions as if we use Chrome.

In short we talk about a browser that seems to have everything and is sweeping the Anglo-Saxon world and increasingly in the Spanish speaker, certainly if the creator of the project was not a computer as influential and experienced as Mr. Eich would work to believe that a project so breakthrough and obviously huge, could succeed. Clearly only the future will give us the answer but for now the figures, both of the users of the browser and the value of the cryptocurrency, speak for themselves.

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You can download Brave from its official website here.