As previously mentioned, I’ve been experimenting with using the combination of the Brave browser and its advertising partner program to bring in some extra funding for my work (and replace what I was getting from Patreon). You can see from my last blog post on the topic that the results have already been positive.

Now comes word of a new referral program to try to convince more folks to use the Brave browser. If you download and use the Brave browser via my referral link, I can score some BAT from Brave, which helps to fund my work here.

The thing is, I do think using Brave is quite beneficial to you as a user. It’s based on the Chromium engine and is quite snappy. Ad and tracker blocking is baked into the cake by default. It also has a nice feature of upgrading many non-encrypted connections to HTTPS. And I do believe that the Basic Attention Token model of funding is a much more sane and honest way to do things compared to the current model of ads, trackers, spyware, hidden cryptocoin miners, and general trickery that a lot of sites use. So I like supporting a paradigm shift in this field.

The caveat is that Brave is still in what I would consider a beta state; which I would define to mean that it mostly works as it should but you might run into an odd bug here or there. But in my experience it is pretty stable and mature enough to use regularly. If you have even a bit of computer savvy, I think you’ll be fine.

I don’t know if this will be the wave of the future, but I think if it’s not than something similar will be. Give it a try and see what you think.