Today, big companies like Facebook or google collect our data, only to sell it to other big companies so they can bombard us with their ads. In return we get nothing, except some ads of random  products we don't even want.

**Is this about to change?**

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUKpCVoPF1agzLPRua4exTi2a3U3GcYTmjYMyTmP8iuwS/image.png)


You might have heard about the [Brave Browser](https://brave.com/downloads.html), which allows you to surf the web ad free.
It has an voluntary payment option, to pay the sites you visit since they are now missing out on your ad money. But its about to get better:

A ICO just closed wit 30 Million US $ raised. Its called [BAT](https://basicattentiontoken.org/index.html)

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZ9ySnToHgZneibo7QfCyXw2zng7uvjXfv3fXZgxLPq6M/image.png)

What it does, is re-enabling ads in the brave browser, but without  big companies storing your data. And the best part, by enabling ads **YOU** will automatically get paid as well.