brave is on a mission to fix what it believes is a broken web ads are everywhere they follow you from site to site to site collecting personal information tracking your browsing activity cluttering up content all the while slowing you down the average person downloads more than 2 000 ads and trackers every day brave wants to change that they believe your web browsing data shouldn't be collected without your permission packaged into a profile and sold to the highest bidder to be used for even more advertising instead brave believes it can make the web faster more secure and more private without intrusive ads to accomplish this vision brave has built a new web browser for phones and computers the brave browser and an ethereum based token called basic attention token or back the brave browser blocks ads and trackers that compromise your privacy to help websites make up for lost revenue brave makes it possible to acquire bad and give it directly to your favorite sites or you can enable brave rewards which serves ads that don't collect or sell your data when you opt into brave rewards the sites you visit are paid in bat and you're rewarded too for paying attention to the ads it's a win for everyone except all those 3rd party ad trackers of course learn more at brave.com the basic attention token is an ethereum based token that is designed to improve digital advertising on the web it works with brave a new web browser built for privacy and a safer faster internet experience basic attention token or bat was created for consumers publishers and advertisers consumers get paid for viewing opt-in private ads publishers get rewarded when consumers pay attention to their content and advertisers get access to an audience that has opted in to seeing their ads to use bat just download brave and switch on an optional feature called brave rewards if you opt in you'll receive ads that don't compromise your privacy brave also blocks all the other ads that track you or can infect you with malware when you consent to viewing ads on brave you earn bat as compensation for your attention your favorite websites and content creators also get bat as a reward for creating content you want to browse seventy percent of the advertising revenue goes to you that's a big change from today's ad ecosystem where you are the product and receive nothing once you collect some bat you can donate it to the creators you love for example a favorite blogger band podcaster or news site allowing them to get paid more for their creative content to make a donation just tap the basic attention token icon in the brave address bar and select how much you want to send that's it in the future the brave team hopes to bring bat beyond the web browser into chat apps social tools games and more in that way brave aims to build more than a better web it intends to build a better safer and more equitable digital world learn more at brave.com brave is a free open source web browser with several unique features it blocks ads automatically so browsing the web is faster and less cluttered with brave you also won't be tracked from site to site by advertisers so your web browsing stays private if you want even more privacy brave also allows you to open a private tab with tor for truly anonymous browsing brave supports all of your favorite chrome extensions too it's built on chromium the open source project that powers Google chrome so chrome extensions work right out of the box without any connection to Google in the background what makes brave really unique though is brave rewards you can opt in to brave rewards to directly support publishers and content creators while you browse the web and you can earn rewards by viewing private ads that aren't tracked brave rewards will notify you of offers as you browse when you click an offer a full page ad opens in a private tab you get to enjoy clutter-free content while earning rewards from viewing private ads in exchange for paying attention to these ads brave rewards you with its own ethereum based token called basic attention token or bat you can pass along your bat to reward content creators purchase premium subscriptions and more the more you browse with brave the more you earn and support your favorite creators learn more at brave.com you