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ption></figure><h1 id="5879">Admit it, Brave browser: “surf-to-earn” is pure deception</h1><p id="95ef">Brave is a free browser that blocks advertisements and trackers; and “pays you” with a cryptocurrency (BAT) for watching ads. Users can contribute the BATs to websites/content creators, or download them to their wallets. Sounds nice, right? Here are the problems:</p><ul><li>Brave supports only two wallets, quite criticized for their flaws.</li><li><b>It just added its own wallet, but, unbelievably, it cannot directly save

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the BATs you collect on Brave itself!!!</b></li><li>Brave pays BATs in cents, and BATs from separate browsers cannot be gathered, making it impossible to reach the amounts needed for withdrawal even after years of fidelity.</li><li>As a content creator, I’ve also found it impossible to actually retrieve BATs.</li><li>The price of the BAT is ridiculously low and very correlated to bitcoin.</li></ul><p id="a77d">Clearly, Brave’s developers just don’t want you to really gain anything from surfing the web.</p></article></body>

The strong correlation (0.87) between prices of Bitcoin and Brave’s cryptocurrency suggests (to me at least) that the latter is not truly creating any value but rather just tied to the fluctuations on Bitcoin. Figure by author using these tools.

Admit it, Brave browser: “surf-to-earn” is pure deception

Brave is a free browser that blocks advertisements and trackers; and “pays you” with a cryptocurrency (BAT) for watching ads. Users can contribute the BATs to websites/content creators, or download them to their wallets. Sounds nice, right? Here are the problems:

  • Brave supports only two wallets, quite criticized for their flaws.
  • It just added its own wallet, but, unbelievably, it cannot directly save the BATs you collect on Brave itself!!!
  • Brave pays BATs in cents, and BATs from separate browsers cannot be gathered, making it impossible to reach the amounts needed for withdrawal even after years of fidelity.
  • As a content creator, I’ve also found it impossible to actually retrieve BATs.
  • The price of the BAT is ridiculously low and very correlated to bitcoin.

Clearly, Brave’s developers just don’t want you to really gain anything from surfing the web.

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