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[–] pozbo 22 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Been using brave for a few years on mobile and desktop.

They uses to give away BAT, but they have refined their system to not give any unless you spend hours jumping through hoops and linking shoddy Chinese financial apps and crypto wallets.

I still use it for the privacy, but after reading this I will likely switch back to firefox or another chrome based browser.

[–] Jeom 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

decided to give the bat thing a go, had to sign up for this crypto thing. that is the only time I've ever been apart of a security breach

[–] pozbo 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've had nothing but issues, first things were good, then you had to make an Uphold account. Couldn't do that from my country, then account limit issues. You can only link your wallet to 4 devices and if you reset your phone it counted as adding a device. Locked me out of my wallet after 1 phone upgrade and replacing the cpu on my desktop.

Currently you have to set some sort of account overseer to collect BAT. I still get the ads, but they haven't sent a payout in months.

All in all I estimate about 450-550 BAT I "earned" watching their ads over the last 3 or 4 years was never paid out.

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