Brave: L. A. Times Basic Attention Token (BAT) accepts the Privacy Browser

the With the L. A. Times, the Brave Browser has a prominent new addition to its network of publishers. Thus, it is now possible to pay for content on the Website of the daily newspaper with the Basic Attention Token (BAT).

By Christopher clover
12. April 2019BTC$5.107,52 2.73%part Facebook Twitter LinkedIn xing mail

The sparrows whistle it from the roofs: Internet advertising in its current Form, is on a descending Branch. So about smaller content creators on sites such as YouTube have little Chance to keep up with advertising revenue over the water. But even the big Youtubers are not immune to the sword of Damocles of the demonetisation of your content.

The cross with the advertising on the Internet

comes To a video platform, taps and a good chunk of the advertising revenue. Therefore, more and more Content producers are looking for alternative financing options. The YouTube Megastar PewDiePie is, for example, entered into a cooperation with the block chain-based Streaming platform DLive. In addition, Crowdfunding platforms like Patreon are growing in popularity with Creators of content.

so Much for the problem from the producer's point of view. The case, YouTube is symptomatic of declining advertising revenues, but not an isolated case. In addition, Intrusive advertising, such as in the Form of Pop-ups and the non-skippable advertising-move Clips on video pages to the users to install Ad-Blocker (at this point, a thank you to all that have disabled your Ad-Blocker on BTC-ECHO!).

number of Brave publishers grows

In the privacy of specialized Browser Brave a Block of advertising belongs to the default setting. Users of the Beta Version instead have the Option to have up to five Ads per hour show. For Viewing an advertisement, a reward of 0.05 Basic Attention Token (BAT) beckons. This collected ASKED be paid on the closing date (the fifth of the month) to the Browser your own Wallet.

Now, it is not, as yet, no detours possible to transfer this BAT on their own Wallets. The user of the browser can be ASKED-tips to the creators of content transfer. This can have the BAT to a KYC with Uphold to your liking. But even here, ASKED to be transferred to a date. The donation or the tip of a User is the Creator so it is not directly available.

With the Website, L. A. Times, can point to Brave a new prominent Publisher. According to data from the Website batgrowth.com the number of Brave Publisher is developing rapidly. Alone, the number of Youtubers who accept ASKED for, since the beginning of March from 35,000 to about 60,000.

The number of publishers that accept BAT, is growing steadily.

Whether Brave will make it actually, the Internet was transforming, of course, remains to be seen. The Trend to self-determined, User is not, therefore, comes without a number of competing solutions for Micropayments. However, the competition, as we know, the business.

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