Gab wants to make a browser rewarding you in BTC - page 2.

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Quote from: proTECH77 on April 26, 2019, 02:02:04 AM

Quote from: kenzawak on April 26, 2019, 12:28:02 AM

Gab is creating its own web browser using Brave’s open-source code replacing the BAT token with Bitcoin Lightning Network integration :

https://decryptmedia.com/6719/gab-forking-brave

"The company has built its own web browser—a forked version of the open-source Brave browser—and will be releasing it within the next few weeks"

That will be a plus to the company and many will like to use the Browser too. One thing i personally love about Brave browser is, that of the unsolicited ads that will never show up while browsing the internet, like others. Many will use the Browser in as much they will get paid for doing so, hope this will be general and not restricted to a particular region or zone.

As far as I know the restrictions on the location really will be.Not everyone who wants to make money on viewing advertising will be able to get such an opportunity.

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Quote from: kenzawak on April 26, 2019, 12:28:02 AM

Gab is creating its own web browser using Brave’s open-source code replacing the BAT token with Bitcoin Lightning Network integration :

https://decryptmedia.com/6719/gab-forking-brave

"The company has built its own web browser—a forked version of the open-source Brave browser—and will be releasing it within the next few weeks"

That might be interesting, especially considering that Gab essentially started as a social media platform, their expansion into the browser market might actually generate something worthwhile for their company after all the various payment processors tried to close them out. I don't know if this is a viable strategy, but I'm sure there will be some people who will start using the browser, especially if it does include a share of the advertising revenue. I might consider using it in that case, even if it is just something like $5.

Replacing the BAT token will probably also be a net benefit for them. Gets one less shitcoin taking up the market and helps generate actual value.

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Quote from: Lucius on April 26, 2019, 07:08:52 AM

They will add new countries based on number of users in each country, so small countries do not have great chances to get on this list. I hope Gab projects will not follow the same path, project only for selected countries it's not something I personally support.

I guess it not about adding specific country but it all dependent on how much advertisement/publisher that they are getting from that region.
It does not make any sense to show ads targeted for region X to be shown on region Y. (if lot of global business join them, then might everyone will get chance.

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Quote from: dothebeats on April 26, 2019, 09:34:54 AM

I'd stick to my normal browsers with adblockers please. The payrate is low, the stakes are high and they'd be asking for KYC information which is not a pretty good sales pitch if you ask me. I've seen browsers with rewards system in the past that had become plagued with bots on just a couple weeks after launching, and perhaps this would also be the case for this new contender on browsers with rewards.

Fortunately, you can use Brave as it is right now without all the ad rewards and such, and I assume you wouldn't need KYC with all these off. The rewards thing by viewing ads is just an option you can turn on and off on the browser settings.

Also, without all these rewards, Brave is still a damn good browser in terms of privacy due to it's tracker browsing feature. I've always preferred Chrome's UI over Firefox, so Brave was a godsend(as Brave is a modified version of Chromium).

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Well this is really interesting but let's hope that they wouldn't need a KYC and wouldn't invade our privacy.
But this would be a great way to earn while surfing and I think it would be great for some internet shop owners.

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Quote from: Lucius on April 26, 2019, 07:08:52 AM

I use Brave for some time, but I never check my BAT wallet until now. As far as I could see user will not receive any rewards if Brave Rewards is not turned on, and in my case this was disabled. User need to click on colored triangle in address bar and manually turn on this option. But as feryjhie quote those rewards (ads) are not available for all, they target only Tier 1 countries. I also see that no ads are available in my region, which is rather discriminatory, but it show it is all about money (15% to users - 15% to Brave - 70% to publishers and content creators).

They will add new countries based on number of users in each country, so small countries do not have great chances to get on this list. I hope Gab projects will not follow the same path, project only for selected countries it's not something I personally support.

Mine is activated unfortunately, I'm not in the Tier 1 region and it only shows "Coming Soon" on my end. And as far as I know, Brave have announced initially that they are going to pay with Bitcoin, I don't what made them switch to BAT though. They also blocks mining scripts in the background based on this github repo (https://github.com/brave/ad-block/commit/5be124382023a9cc81ae8a741e4b6c5695ae78bc). So let's see how this 'forking' would do, specially Gab chooses Bitcoin.

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I'd stick to my normal browsers with adblockers please. The payrate is low, the stakes are high and they'd be asking for KYC information which is not a pretty good sales pitch if you ask me. I've seen browsers with rewards system in the past that had become plagued with bots on just a couple weeks after launching, and perhaps this would also be the case for this new contender on browsers with rewards.

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Quote from: Genemind on April 26, 2019, 07:41:30 AM

Would be great for blocking ads and getting paid at the same time. However, why undergo KYC. I think I have been seeing this before and this also goes with referral. A lot of people are promoting this in our country, if I am not mistaken.

You can just install any ad blocker to any browser. That's not really a strong feature of Gab. Payrates would also be pretty low. It seems like those 5$ that were mentioned on this topic are way overestimated. As I remember, any kind of service that gave some rewards for doing almost nothing had incredibly low payrates. I guess that you would have to use this browser for a year in order to get enough funds to pay tx fees for sending those rewards to someone.

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Quote from: kenzawak on April 26, 2019, 01:05:58 AM

Quote from: stompix on April 26, 2019, 12:49:37 AM

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Brave will give users a 70 percent cut of its advertising revenue, which Eich estimates could work out to about $5 a month.

At 5$ a month, and that is most likely for US citizens or at least Western world I doubt many will take the offer since right now I would probably pay myself 5$ to not see all those annoying ads every time I browse around Grin

. I've never understood people that don't use adblocking add-ons
Besides, I wonder how long is going to take before they are overrun by bots: one, two days?

Actually, I've been using Brave for the past couple of days and I don't see the ads and don't have to click on anything. I still get paid though, about 1 BAT per day.

Would be great for blocking ads and getting paid at the same time. However, why undergo KYC. I think I have been seeing this before and this also goes with referral. A lot of people are promoting this in our country, if I am not mistaken.

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Quote from: kenzawak on April 26, 2019, 01:05:58 AM

Actually, I've been using Brave for the past couple of days and I don't see the ads and don't have to click on anything. I still get paid though, about 1 BAT per day.

Well, that ain't bad news. But, I wonder how do the dev earn with their website without those paying ads? As we all know that these ads paid through flashing in the web browser. Anyway, whatever it is I do believe on this statement since it support the article being shared by OP.

And may the team and the founder achieve the target and goals.

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I use Brave for some time, but I never check my BAT wallet until now. As far as I could see user will not receive any rewards if Brave Rewards is not turned on, and in my case this was disabled. User need to click on colored triangle in address bar and manually turn on this option. But as feryjhie quote those rewards (ads) are not available for all, they target only Tier 1 countries. I also see that no ads are available in my region, which is rather discriminatory, but it show it is all about money (15% to users - 15% to Brave - 70% to publishers and content creators).

They will add new countries based on number of users in each country, so small countries do not have great chances to get on this list. I hope Gab projects will not follow the same path, project only for selected countries it's not something I personally support.

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It really sounds interesting would like to see what it is.

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Quote from: kenzawak on April 26, 2019, 05:59:12 AM

Quote from: feryjhie on April 26, 2019, 01:45:47 AM

So you are using brave browser and getting 1 BAT per day?
While a few days ago i just install brave browser and i found the BAT wallet but the ads section just written coming soon

If GAB make a new web browser like brave i would definetly try it

Here is a tutorial for the ad viewing service :
https://whatisbat.com/2019/04/25/how-to-turn-on-brave-ads-and-earn-bat-with-the-brave-browser/

i just follow the tutorial from the link you gave above, but it turns out there is a limited region that ads work.
maybe BAT not accept an Asian country for the ads Rewards?
Edit:
i just search on google and found this

Quote from: therhslv on April 26, 2019, 06:03:00 AM

Quote from: kenzawak on April 26, 2019, 12:28:02 AM

Gab is creating its own web browser using Brave’s open-source code replacing the BAT token with Bitcoin Lightning Network integration :

https://decryptmedia.com/6719/gab-forking-brave

"The company has built its own web browser—a forked version of the open-source Brave browser—and will be releasing it within the next few weeks"

Can i ask whats the point of browser like Brave ? I know it blocks adds and offers to watch some adds with rewards . But i think anyone can create plugin for lets say Chrome and it will do same thing :/

Maybe the difference for me just like the brave browser has a wallet built in it

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Quote from: kenzawak on April 26, 2019, 12:28:02 AM

Gab is creating its own web browser using Brave’s open-source code replacing the BAT token with Bitcoin Lightning Network integration :

https://decryptmedia.com/6719/gab-forking-brave

"The company has built its own web browser—a forked version of the open-source Brave browser—and will be releasing it within the next few weeks"

Can i ask whats the point of browser like Brave ? I know it blocks adds and offers to watch some adds with rewards . But i think anyone can create plugin for lets say Chrome and it will do same thing :/

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Quote from: feryjhie on April 26, 2019, 01:45:47 AM

So you are using brave browser and getting 1 BAT per day?
While a few days ago i just install brave browser and i found the BAT wallet but the ads section just written coming soon

If GAB make a new web browser like brave i would definetly try it

Here is a tutorial for the ad viewing service :
https://whatisbat.com/2019/04/25/how-to-turn-on-brave-ads-and-earn-bat-with-the-brave-browser/

Quote from: jseverson on April 26, 2019, 01:57:55 AM

If you're a fan of that business model though, then this would be better. BAT is essentially useless and IIRC they have plans to introduce KYC measures in the future.

For now KYC is only for creators (i.e. youtube publishers) not for regular users viewing the ads.
As of now, there is no way to withdraw your BAT, it will be implemented later. I don't see any reason why there should be a KYC for that.
They actually claim to want to decentralize more and more their project.

Quote from: mindrust on April 26, 2019, 02:04:26 AM

As long as they don't force KYC down to your throat the idea looks great. Gab on the other hand is a bit hated by the establishment. I've never used their platform but I assume they are a bit too free compared to facebook...

If they manage to use this idea right gab can be as big and maybe even bigger than fb in a few months.

Think about it, people share almost all of their personal data on fb and fb makes money from it while paying NOTHiNG to its data providers. (Users Grin

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People will move in drones from fb to gab but like I said, I don't want to deal with KYC horse shit.

Same here. I'll never feel comfortable using any browser anyway.
Brave is based on Chrome so I'm definitely having trust issues regarding privacy here.
But I'd rather use the same exact browser (Brave and GIB would use the same code) and be paid in BTC.

Quote from: Bitinity on April 26, 2019, 02:25:52 AM

Are you sure that you dont have to see ads and do not need to click anything to get the BAT reward? AFAIK it is like a pay to surf when a user is getting paid by watching ads through the browser.
By the way, I'll wait for the forked browser and lets see how this new browser is better than Brave browser.

100% sure. I promise you I have had zero interaction with any ads for now. I don't know if it's a bug or if it's supposed to be this way but until now I litterally got paid for doing... well nothing.

The only real issue I've had so far is that there seems to be a daily cap, a maximum of 21 ad notifications per day... which in itself might be reassuring.

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Quote from: mindrust on April 26, 2019, 02:04:26 AM

People will move in drones from fb to gab but like I said, I don't want to deal with KYC horse shit.

I disagree. Who in the heck has even heard of gab? This is the first time I am actually hearing of it honestly. For 5 freaking dollars, I am not willing to give up my privacy by submitting KYC just like you.

I don't think anyone in their right mind would want to waste their time fiddling around with such a browser for such a small amount of money.

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Quote from: kenzawak on April 26, 2019, 01:05:58 AM

Actually, I've been using Brave for the past couple of days and I don't see the ads and don't have to click on anything. I still get paid though, about 1 BAT per day.

As others said, that is pretty weird..
Is there some kind of option in the browser where you view only certain ads on certain websites, like the adblock whitelist and you simply haven't hit those pages? Or it is a daily fixed payout like an airdrop?

Anyhow the whole things is ridiculous.
They claim others have privacy problems while they basically do the same thing:

Quote from: jseverson on April 26, 2019, 01:57:55 AM

BAT is essentially useless and IIRC they have plans to introduce KYC measures in the future.

Oh, KYC!!!
What could be better, hand over your address and age to the company that knows everything you do on the internet.
Bet they could sell such profiles for 10x times what they "pay" you.

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Quote from: kenzawak on April 26, 2019, 01:05:58 AM

Quote from: stompix on April 26, 2019, 12:49:37 AM

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Brave will give users a 70 percent cut of its advertising revenue, which Eich estimates could work out to about $5 a month.

At 5$ a month, and that is most likely for US citizens or at least Western world I doubt many will take the offer since right now I would probably pay myself 5$ to not see all those annoying ads every time I browse around Grin

. I've never understood people that don't use adblocking add-ons
Besides, I wonder how long is going to take before they are overrun by bots: one, two days?

Actually, I've been using Brave for the past couple of days and I don't see the ads and don't have to click on anything. I still get paid though, about 1 BAT per day.

Are you sure that you dont have to see ads and do not need to click anything to get the BAT reward? AFAIK it is like a pay to surf when a user is getting paid by watching ads through the browser.
By the way, I'll wait for the forked browser and lets see how this new browser is better than Brave browser.

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The idea is pretty good, but need to have to figure out how it will be implemented and what the reward will be. If there is an archaic interface, then I definitely will not use this browser. Moreover, as you understand, the reward will be symbolic. It seems to me that this browser will not cause much attention from the crypto community. Especially if it is rather mediocre. It seems to me that the Sharpay project offers a better idea. They integrate their buttons on the partner sites, clicking on which both the site owner and the user receives a reward in cryptocurrency.

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As long as they don't force KYC down to your throat the idea looks great. Gab on the other hand is a bit hated by the establishment. I've never used their platform but I assume they are a bit too free compared to facebook...

If they manage to use this idea right gab can be as big and maybe even bigger than fb in a few months.

Think about it, people share almost all of their personal data on fb and fb makes money from it while paying NOTHiNG to its data providers. (Users Grin

)

People will move in drones from fb to gab but like I said, I don't want to deal with KYC horse shit.

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