Getting Started with Brave

Why does Brave need its own blockchain token? Either it&#x27;s centralised and doesn&#x27;t need blockchain. Or it&#x27;s trying to be decentralised, and then might as well use an existing token like BTC or ETH. I understand that the latter may be too expensive for micropayments, but surely that comes with the territory when you&#x27;re using a blockchain.<p>I simply don&#x27;t get BAT.

I&#x27;ve been using Brave for a couple of years, already (I think) and I&#x27;m quite happy with it. By default it might spawn some ads but you can easily disable it forever. It&#x27;s the fastest there is.

Brave with the various crypto extensions removed is a very nice alternative to Chrome.

Brave seems to pop up here every now and then. With its past history of scammy behaviour (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;6&#x2F;8&#x2F;21283769&#x2F;brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;6&#x2F;8&#x2F;21283769&#x2F;brave-browser-aff...</a>) and how they collect money without actually promising to give it to people that they claim to act opn behalf of, its not a browser anyone should trust.<p>There are so many better alternatives to brave for those that want to donate to content creators or just browse the web. I have never understood the fascination or usefulness of brave. I would caution people against using it.

As a fan of classic Opera (up to version 12) I&#x27;m currently more interested in Vivaldi browser, as it has quite a few unique UI features from old Opera, like turning images off right from status bar, sidebar browsing, window tiling and upcoming integrated email client and RSS reader will be neat.

They should have a BAT extension for Firefox.

It&#x27;s important to have content-neutral browsers. Several days ago Mozilla indicated their support of the Internet censorship regime: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;we-need-more-than-deplatforming&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;we-need-more-than-d...</a>

Just get Firefox.<p>Brave has ads, including annoying desktop pop ups!

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Nobody who liked it when Brendan Eich resigned from Mozilla (over his support of Prop 8) should consider using Brave, now or in the future.