Open Source - Privacy-Focused Browser
I was doing some catch up reading and found an interesting article that announced yesterday that Coindesk will partner with Brave Software.
Official Coindesk Press Release Announcement:
In order to maintain revenue with the value of ad impressions dropping across the Internet, many media companies have found themselves increasingly pressured to allow networks to serve ads that trade their users' privacy and security for delivery guarantees. Rather than follow suit and chase additional pennies from third-party networks that serve intrusive ads that track and follow users as they browse the Internet, CoinDesk has committed instead to evaluate new revenue models with Brave that provide brand advertisers with significant returns on their investment while also providing users with a faster, cleaner, and more private experience.
Brave Software:
"We're excited to partner with CoinDesk to reform the ad-tech ecosystem. Brave Payments gives browser users and website content creators the fair deal they deserve with ownership of their data," said Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave Software. "Now users have a new and private way to support CoinDesk and its high-quality content, while enjoying a clean browsing experience free of third-party intermediaries that clog Web pages with invasive ads, trackers, and sometimes even malware."
Brave software has developed a new web browser that is a bitcoin-based micropayments system, open source, privacy-focused browser that blocks invasive ads and trackers.
Their payment system called Brave Payments, "pays users' favorite websites privately and automatically from the Brave browser, people can now choose to support CoinDesk in exchange for an ad-free experience with no behavioral tracking and profiling by third parties, not even by Brave or CoinDesk."
How Are The Payments Funded?
The browser has a built in wallet for users to deposit bitcoin to and set a "monthly browsing" budget to send to sites such as Coindesk.com.
This is a really great idea since more and more censorship is happening and sites are having banks and payment processing services like major credit card companies are cutting the way sites receive their funds to maintain operation costs. In addition to removing third-party ads and trackers, users will experience faster loading pages on desktop and mobile devices to save them hours, at the same time save them in battery and data plan consumption.
Something I am definitely going to try out :)
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Excellent - yet another browser to add to the list I have to build for.
I think I will have to change the way I charge for doing my job. I currently charge by the hour, but I think I'll start charging by the browser....
HA! Never thought if it that way! I like where this is heading :)
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Coinbase blocks Tor. This is not a company that can be trusted with end-user security.
Very few can be trusted with end-user security. Especially having to follow U.S. money transmitting regulations, the government wants a piece of every transaction that happens, it's not even about taxes anymore. Just about taking money.
Let's not obviate the point, and ignore the problem that coinbase requires trust, while forcing needless end-user disclosure and blatantly sharing all traffic with a 3rd party -- ultimately indicating untrustworthiness.
Bitsquare, for example, does not require users to trust a central authority or rely on a single particular entity as a single point of failure.
How am I am I ignoring the problem? I agree that very few can be trustworthy and coinbase is not one of them.
Have you tried bitsqaure? and am I able to use it from the U.S.?