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# About Brave and Pixeldrain
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## <img src="/res/img/brave_lion.svg" style="height: 0.8em;"/> What is Brave?
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Brave is a web browser focused on privacy and speed. In some tests Brave is up
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to 3 times faster than Chrome and Firefox. It does this by blocking
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advertisements and tracking scripts before they even get a chance to load.
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Beside the speed improvements this also saves a lot of power and data, very
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useful for mobile phones.
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Websites look much cleaner without all those advertisements. I don't like
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putting ads on pixeldrain either, but I need the money to keep the website
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running. Brave tries to solve this by giving users the choice if they want to
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see ads. If you opt in to seeing ads from Brave you will receive notifications
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with promotional offers once in a while. Brave protects your privacy by putting
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the logic for showing relevant ads directly in the browser itself. This way your
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browser history never leaves your computer and Google can't follow you around
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the web. The earnings from these ads are distributed between the websites which
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you love most, a small cut goes to Brave itself for developing the browser, and
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some of it goes to you. That's right, you get paid for viewing ads!
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## <img src="/res/img/bat_full_color.svg" style="height: 0.8em;"/> Basic attention tokens
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<img src="/res/img/bat_wallet.png" style="float: right; max-width: 40%; margin: 0 0.5em;"/>
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The money that you get from viewing ads (and receiving free token grants) goes
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into a cryptocurrency wallet which is built right into the browser. Once you
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have earned some rewards you have a few options. You can choose to automatically
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distribute them between websites which you spend the most time on, you can tip
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your favourite websites by pressing the tip button in the address bar or you can
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convert the money to your own currency and deposit it to your bank account.
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Of course I would really appreciate it if you tipped some coins to pixeldrain
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once in a while ;-)
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<br style="clear: right;"/>
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When you install the Brave browser and use it for 30 days they will make a
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contribution of around 5$ to pixeldrain. This is currently the site's
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biggest source of income. It allows me to get faster servers in more places and
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spend more time working on the site. So, if you're ready:
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a class="button button_highlight" style="font-size: 1.5em;" href="https://brave.com/pix009">
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<img src="/res/img/brave_lion.svg" style="height: 1.5em; vertical-align: middle;"/>
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Get started with Brave
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</a>
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</div>
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If you want to learn more about Brave and its goals I can recommend checking out
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the [blog](https://brave.com/blog). If you want to get in touch there is also
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the [community forum](https://community.brave.com) and a [reddit
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forum](https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser).
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