Here’s a thought exercise: what is the most impactful thing you could make in just 10 days? Thirty years before creating the crypto-enabled Brave browser in 2015, Brendan Eich was a young developer at Netscape, the company Marc Andreessen co-founded with fellow entrepreneur and computer scientist Jim Clark after coding the first web browser as a student at the University of Illinois. Eich was charged with creating a working prototype of a new computer scripting language in a week in order to compete with Microsoft. He succeeded, and what is now known as JavaScript is the most popular programming language, used by 68% of developers according to a survey by…
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Brave browser CEO and Mozilla Firefox co-founder Brendan Eich had to apologize for affiliate links (Photo: Flickr/DrewMcLellan)Misfortune favors the Brave: Browser’s affiliate links kick up a stink
Brave has long promised that users can opt into ads, but affiliate links were being automatically added when users type some crypto sites into their address bar
"You deserve a better Internet," according to the privacy-focused Brave browser. It has positioned itself as the bastion of what the web should look like—a place where users aren’t exploited for financial gain. But now, a bombshell has emerged.
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Brave attracts one million new users in March
As most of us spend more time at home because of the pandemic, a web browser that pays users in crypto is enjoying a spike in demand
The co-founder of Firefox parent Mozilla, Eich’s stated aim is to “fix the internet” with Brave—and part of this plan involves paying users in crypto. A share of advertising revenue is distributed to users who agree to view ads in the form of Ethereum-based Basic Attention Tokens. This digital asset can then be cashed in or used to reward content creators on platforms such as YouTube and Twitch.
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This browser will pay you in crypto
And it may even pay for your subscriptions, too
Brendan Eich, the Javascript programming language founder and creator of Mozilla Firefox, wants to pay you in crypto to use his new browser. In the coming weeks, users who download the Brave browser can start earning a share of what advertisers spend to garner their attention. Most ad revenue systems are somewhat hostile to both users and advertisers. You—the consumer—have an ad between you and the content you’re downloading on your data plan. Meanwhile, the website publisher has little incentive to prove you’re actually consuming the ad they sold on your behalf. Now Eich has delivered a new platform that users runs on the ether-based Basic Attention Token (BAT) to improve the…
