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Brave. Brave launched in 2016 and was built by Brendan Eich, one of the co-founders of Mozilla and the person who created JavaScript. Brave's entire identity is built around one idea. The current advertising model of the web is broken and Brave is going to fix it. The standard web browsing experience in 2024 involves being tracked by dozens of advertisers on every website you visit. Your behavior is collected, packaged, and sold to companies you have never heard of. and trackers, pages load significantly faster. Brave published benchmarks showing it loads pages up to three times faster than Chrome on mobile. Brave also has its own advertising system called Brave Ads. Users can opt in to see privacy respecting ads and get paid in a cryptocurrency called basic attention token for viewing them. This is a completely different model from every other browser. You are the one getting paid to see ads instead of the website. The criticism of Brave is that it occasionally inserted affiliate links into URLs, replacing the original referral codes with Brave's own codes to earn cryptocurrency commissions. This was discovered in 2020 and caused significant backlash. Brave apologized and removed the behavior, but the trust damage was real.

Brave. Brave launched in 2016 and was built by Brendan Eich, one of the co-founders of Mozilla and the person who created JavaScript. Brave's entire identity i…