Since blockchain raised, searching on the internet became more interesting than boring Google search. So, trying to be an environment saver and being a crypto user I like to experience new ecological, cryptography and blockchain projects that are coming to the market. Since about one year ago, I have tried and still using browser like: Brave, Presearch, CryptoTab (gave upto this!), and Ecosia. Let me share my experience, good and bad with each of them, just in case you are interested in using or are already doing it.
Brave Browser
Brave browser offers BAT tokens to those who use it. It is already well known because its aggressive publicity claiming to respect users privacy, paying for viewing ads, and being crypto friendly. However, my experience with Brave is not as expected: I am not sure about respecting privacy, I got almost zero payments, and also had big problems with some important applications that didn't work on this browser, so I had to go back to Chrome or Firefox sometimes.
Regarding the privacy, according to a report by Decrypt.co, the browser failed to notify its 15 million users that it may use the browser-based URL-autocomplete function to steer user to affiliate links.
About BAT
Basic Attention Token (BAT)
Coin Market Cap Rank: #31
Price in USD, today 17.06.2020; $0.223817
Price in ETH: 0.00095297 ETH
Market Cap: $329,775,507
24 Hour Trading Vol: $37,999,934
Supply: 1.5 Billion tokens
Source: https://www.coingecko.com
Basic Attention Token price today is $0.223680 with a 24-hour trading volume of $37,999,934. BAT price is down -0.4% in the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 1.5 Billion coins and a max supply of 1.5 Billion coins. Coinbase Pro is the current most active market trading it.
As for making BAT by using Brave Browser, some people in some countries make money, but for Romania this browser is a big mess. Every time I open the wallet, is empty, then I see 0.0 BAT up to 1.6 BAT, which I have now, made in about one month. The next time I might see it empty again, who knows?! And also zero synchronization between the browser on PC and the one on smartphone.
Last days, trying to connect and reconnect the wallet, few times I've received this message from Brave: "Uh oh. Your wallet is unreachable. No worries. This can happen for a variety of security reasons. Reconnecting your wallet will solve this issue". So, "Don't worry, be happy?"
My conclusion about this browser: How to be happy with the above problems?! I might give up at all to it, but if you find it good for you, keep it!
Info: https://brave.com
Presearch Browser
Presearch browser offers PRE tokens as a reward for those who search through the platform. These tokens have intrinsic value because they are the access tokens purchased by advertisers to target searchers entering certain keywords. The amount currently provided to searchers is 0.5 PRE if they search through a search engine called ‘Dsearch’. 25 PRE tokens can be earned when you refer a new user through referral account. Here's mine, just in case you wanna use it :) https://www.presearch.org/signup?rid=1726767
About PRE
Presearch Token (PRE)
Coin Market Cap Rank: #256
Price in USD, today 17.06.2020; $0.02579003
Price in ETH: 0.00010980 ETH
Market Cap: $10,230,166
24 Hour Trading Vol: $234,344
Supply: 500,000,000 tokens
Source: https://www.coingecko.com
This browser looks good, the dashboard looks user friendly, except the annoying sponsored searches in front of the search page and also the "eternal" time to wait until you can withdrawal the minimum imposer 1000 PRE tokens!
CryptoTab Browser
CryptoTab claims to be the world's first browser with Bitcoin mining feature, but most of us know that it is not possible to mine cryptos on PC in an efficient way. It is just waste of time! However, website looks great, very user-friendly, the company behing it is legit, but the business concept is not workable at all. I tried it just for fun and for seeing what happens, so my Lenovo PC started to get hot and working very hard, for few fraction of token in 24 hours, so I had to uninstall it and get rid of it fast.
Info: https://cryptobrowser.site/en/
Ecosia Browser
I like Ecosia because it is environmentally friendly. It is not on blockchain, but it's the search engine that plants trees, and today we have 97,503.525 trees planted by Ecosia users!
Image source: https://info.ecosia.org/what
Do you know other crypto friendly browsers? What's your experience with browsers based on crypto?
References:
Decrypt, Privacy browser Brave under fire for violating users’ trust: https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect
