What Is Brave?
Brave, just like Chrome, Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi, is based on Google's open-source Chromium browser code, so it's compatible, fast, and familiar. It sports some unique features, too: Ad blocking and web tracking protection are built in, its private browsing mode can hide your traffic using Tor, it includes a built-in BitTorrent utility, and it offers a cryptocurrency wallet.
The BAT system will only take off if lots of sites take advantage of what it offers: ad-free content support and letting the users earn by giving their attention to a site's advertisements. Brave claims that over 500,000 content creators and publishers participate in the program. The company also makes a compelling case that most of the ad money on the web is going to Google and Facebook these days, rather than to the actual content publishers.
2. How to Earn Money on Brave Browser?
I have been using Brave Browser since Apr 19 and I have collected in total 1925 BAT tokens till date. I would say this is one of my passive income streams and you too can build one for yourself.
If you are a content creator (owns a website, YouTube channel or etc.), you can earn more from referrals & tips. Else, you can still earn money if you are willing to sell your “attention” to view the ads.
Users have the options to choose how many ads they want to receive per hour. The maximum right now is 5. But if you find it too spammy, you can reduce it to 1 or 2 and you receive fewer BAT tokens.
Alternatively, if you don’t even want to receive ads but just want to enjoy the privacy and security feature, just turn off the “Brave Rewards” feature.
3. How Much Can You Earn as a User?
Here is a summary of how much BAT tokens I have collected thus far. BAT is an ERC-20 token that is publicly traded on the exchange. The figures shown below are based on the closing price of BAT token at the date of writing. (about US$0.32)
The blue bar charts are what you can potentially earn from viewing ads as a regular user. How it works is an ad would pop up at the corner of your screen, click it, view it, and you get paid BAT tokens for your attention.
A new feature that recently just rolled out this year is what they called “Sponsored Images”. Instead of having pop-up ads every hour, it can just be a big beautiful background image that appears on your tab page.
This is an example of how a sponsored image would look like. The advertiser, in this case, BlockFi, can just show their image on the user’s new tab page. Then you get paid BAT tokens for viewing this image.
As of 2020 YTD, I have accumulated about US$30+ for clicking and viewing these ads. That is just from 1 user. You could imagine asking your partner/family members to do the same and multiply that by the number of users.
And also, that is just from 1 device, my desktop. Brave Browser is also available on Android/iOS. You can earn extra BAT tokens by viewing ads on your phone if that is where you spend more time on.
4. How Much Can You Earn as a Publisher?
The orange bar charts are what you can potentially earn as a content creator. As long as you own a website, YouTube channel, you belong to this category. If you are just a regular user, you can skip this part.
As a publisher, there are two ways you can receive BAT tokens.
First is by their creator referral program and second is through people tipping you.
As a user of Brave Browser, you can tip others with BAT tokens if you like their content. This tipping feature has already been integrated on websites, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit and even Github. That is how pervasive Brave Browser is expanding and this is just the beginning....