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Stop Using Brave Browser

Seriously.

The program rewarded Brave users with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), based on how long they spent viewing ads and content, which would then be kept in a digital wallet or given to publishers as a sort of tipping system. The fourth season of the Brave Marketer Podcast in 2022 included an episode with Steven Kalifowitz, then-CMO at Crypto.com, in which he shared “the strategies and tactics he’s implementing on his team’s quest to become a world renowned brand like Coke and Netflix.” The Financial Times reported in 2023 that Crypto.com was trading against its own customers, and in 2022, the company attempted to hide the full scale of its layoffs. Ultimately, Brave Browser is the apparatus of an advertising company, a bloated and complicated experience for the average user, and the pet project of the person kicked out of Mozilla for continuing to defend harmful political donations.

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