 I caused a little bit of a controversy among my subscribers yesterday because I put up a video where I was clearly using Brave, the browser, that is this thing right here. I want to explain why I've been using Brave for the past couple months and I think it is not just a good browser, but it's unique in that it caters both, like it's something you can install on your grandmother's computer and she will have a better browsing experience and it is also an extensible browser that has this sort of unique cryptocurrency aspect about it. You know I don't know if you're familiar with it but you can basically get paid to browse. I mean it's not that much but you know it's nice pocket change we'll just say that. So I want to talk about what makes Brave unique and why I've been using it and honestly not even what it makes it unique. At least there is of course that aspect but also it's just a generally good browser frankly to be honest. So anyway this is what it looks like when it pops up right so you'll see up here this is the default screen I haven't configured anything I think I like remove the most frequently visited sites thing I usually don't like web history but you'll see Brave is nice because it does what I consider the bare minimum of browsers. By default it blocks ads and trackers. I don't know why you would use a browser without blocking ads and trackers and this is coming from someone who makes money off of internet ads okay. I don't think there's any morals superiority and in looking at ads okay. So Brave does the bare minimum by blocking ads and stuff and it also has a lot of other features it upgrades the HTTPS by default but even just blocking ads that is a nice thing for your normie parents who don't know how to use ad block okay. But I want to talk about some of the settings of Brave and it has you know mostly what you'd expect from a browser with a couple cool things added okay. It has actually I'll go ahead and talk about some of the cool stuff it has for example most browsers have incognito windows. Well Brave has incognito with tour so you can just pop up pop open a tour window right here. It's probably not as secure as the actual tour browser but I'm in you know I don't do anything thing illegal using tour so I you know every once in a while there's something that I need tour to look at. It's nice having just a tour window that I can pull up. So that's one just interesting feature that Brave has. Anyway I'm gonna go through really quickly the settings menu just to show you it has everything you need okay. So appearance wise I'm pretty sure Brave by default is actually dark instead of light. I don't know why people write applications to have to be light by default because it's just everyone hates it it's terrible in the eyes but it can use your own GTK theme and stuff like that. You can you know you can figure out the basic settings let me just show you the the important things as I said you can block trackers and ads that's default and it upgrades the HTTPS by default. Also you can just block scripts so I know that a lot of people who use Chrome or Firefox they install some kind of add-on that lets them block scripts on sites if they don't want them well Brave has that too. So it's another little nice privacy feature if you like it and I should say you know the reason I didn't start using Brave for a while I think for whatever reason maybe it was you know proprietary software a couple years ago when it was in development but for whatever reason I had the idea that it still was but it's not it's you know it's free software it's good stuff. Anyway so social media blocking oh another feature that is nice to have now I know you guys are like all bloat but you know still you're just gonna add add-ons to do the same stuff so blocking social media you can turn those on by default search engines oh actually let me say before I forget Brave is based it basically is the same engine as Chrome it works like Chrome except for of course it's obviously not sending every key you press to Google so being Chrome you know based on the same engine as Chrome it can actually take Google Chrome add-ons extensions whatever they call them so I only have two I just have a VIM binding thing and I have Stylish Stylish is the thing that lets you set custom CSS if you want like a dark Wikipedia or something instead of like the cringe light one you can set that up on Stylish anyway but one other feature that I think is a must-have in any browser I know Firefox has it I assume Chrome does but Brave definitely does in case you need it is the ability not just to create your own search engines put your own search engines in but you can also set prefixes for search engines so for example here I've set YT to be YouTube so I can just open up a window press YT and then it'll you know I'll just look for myself on YouTube and that will automatically direct to YouTube okay so that's how those custom searches work so I don't need that window so that's all the custom searches work and again Firefox has them I think Chrome does Brave of course does so if you need that you got it so another thing your normie grandmother could actually use is Brave has a built-in system for bit torrent protocol you can download torrents just in the Brave browser now you might say Luke my grandmother doesn't use torrents well yes that's because she hasn't been able to download them in her browser that's why she doesn't use them so whenever she comes across some you know obviously virus thing that she's going to download that's a torrent she can't download it because she doesn't know how to use you know she doesn't have a torrent program or any of that stuff but if you just need a down it's it's very nice if you're not someone like me who has a custom torrent setup or whatever it's nice just to be able to download torrents in your browser so that's one other little feature it has I know there are some of my subscribers who are just like blow blow blow but you know I mean I think I said it before people quote me as saying this I don't know if I actually did but you know the shame about the internet nowadays is it's so bloated sometimes you just need a bloated browser and brave does that without feeling bloated I'll tell you that so anyway it has all the basic stuff you usually expect now let's talk about the cryptocurrency aspect of brave so again as I said brave blocks ads by default and it's set up actually let me click on the brave rewards things you can enroll in what they call brave rewards where you can voluntarily consent to get little advertisements and there are little white windows that pop up down here just you can set it up on you know the brave rewards tab you can go to ads and say so I have it set at the maximum of five ads per hour okay now why would you want to view ads well you can view ads and they will pay you in their cryptocurrency which is called you know the BAT basic attention token right here so this feature is is new I'll tell you it works I have gotten I've withdrawn money in real real fraudulent US Federal Reserve notes but it some of the system is a little wonky here it says I have nothing like it's everything's a little delayed I'll just tell you that so don't worry if you're not getting the money you think you want you have so for example this money's a little delayed that was from I don't know a while ago anyway so how brave rewards works is you can look at ads and you get their cryptocurrency now by default they have what they call auto contribute activated and how that works is the browser keeps track of the sites that you've been looking at over the month and at the end of the month it sends out a donation it splits up the bat you've earned and sends them out all out to those people you know let's say you watch my YouTube videos well I'll get a share of that BAT or something like that now I've turned that off and the reason is I like manually choosing who I want to donate to I don't know what I don't want to like rage we read you know the New York Times or something like that and accidentally donate something to them that would be really terrible so I turn it off and I either keep my leftover money or donate manually to people so that's one thing you can do so the question you might have is how much money do you actually earn on this thing so right here it says estimated pending rewards it's like less than a dollar and it's been like nearly the whole month that sounds like nothing you do make more than that as I said it's a little delayed I'll show you my my statements from a couple months ago so here so here is that's my October earnings I got 25 bat that's around you know five six seven dollars something like that that's decent a decent amount of change I guess and that's per month so and I will say I actually browse a lot less than many other people I know people might think that because I'm using it I have a technology YouTube channel I'm using the computer all the time I actually don't but so I got around five bucks I get pretty much five bucks a month just from browsing so here's November and here's December so that's pretty typical for me it might be different for you I've seen people who get insane amounts of money and I've seen people you know people who will get like 50 bucks like I don't even know how they did it but I also see people who a month who will get less because maybe they're in a country that you know gets fewer ads like people aren't marketing there so there aren't as many ads and I'll also say Brave does have a mobile application I do have it on my phone as well and I feel like I'm cheating them because every morning I don't really use my phone that much so every morning I'll wake up and I'll check my phone and I'll have like 30,000 Brave ads and I'm like oh I got I got some marginal amount of money for these even though I didn't really pay attention wow that's nice so anyway I will also show you I know YouTube E celebs are usually very cautious about showing you anything money related but I will show you the creator side of Brave so if you make YouTube videos or if you have a website what you can do is you can sign your website up for Brave rewards and that is how people can donate like basically you just verify that you own these own a website or something like that and people can go to your YouTube no let's say I'll go to my website actually okay if I go to my website this this little thing up here this is how you donate you can just click on that send a tip something like that and that'll basically I mean that's how you donate to people okay anyway so if you make if you have any kind of web content you can sign up for this and you can see that people like basically donate a little bit of money for each of the stuff this is of course isn't bad so here is here's my statement from last month it's what like 400 something so in terms of real money you know real money what that be like 50 60 something dollars so I don't know anyway so it's some amount of money that's it's not bad you know it's nothing to ignore if you make YouTube videos or something like that oh you know what dang okay here's my affiliate link graph if I were a good shill I would have given you my fill my affiliate link at the beginning of this video but I forgot about that but I do have an affiliate if you click on it and use brave I get some amount of money if you use it within 30 days or something like that review if you continue using it dang I should have said that at the beginning that I yeah I need to up my shill game okay I've done two videos on cryptocurrency in a row and I'm clearly new at this stuff because I'm you know anyway so you can do that if you like but either way definitely check out brave even if you even if you're totally uninterested in the pocket change you'll get or be able to donate through the brave rewards it's actually just a better browser I mean it has the functionality of Google Chrome it has a couple other features that should be default on every browser like you know upgrading to HTTPS blocking ads and trackers the web torrent thing is nice it has all these features that make it very usable it's not like you have to learn how to use it you could just as I said you could just install it on your grandma's computer and she's gonna be fine using it so if you don't want to use any of the cryptocurrency aspect of it you don't have to you can just omit that that's totally fine but if you want to like nice little bonus you know five bucks a month you know that's a nice little clip Christmas bonus it's been buy or some buy yourself something else for Christmas I don't know or donate them either way it's just nice to have so anyway that's why I've been using brave and it's not because of any huge superiority of it I think most browsers are pretty close but brave I think edge of edges over the competition not just in the cryptocurrency part but it just sort of has everything it's it looks good it looks good every time you bring it up it just has a nice a pretty landscape photo or well that's not a landscape okay I lied but most of the times they're landscapes so anyway that's it and I will see you guys next time