Have you heard of the Brave Browser? It is a browser with ad and tracker blocking, and a built-in bitcoin wallet so that you can automatically send contributions to your most visited web sites once a month. Look who's at the top of my list!
Note: You do have to fund the wallet yourself, at least for now. They supposedly have plans to let you earn btc by accepting "safe ads" from their advertising network, but it's been more than a year since those plans were announced, so I'm not holding my breath. Either way, it's nice to be able to block ads and trackers and just have automatic payments sent out to support the web sites that I use.
I have heard of it, and have downloaded it myslef. It still needs a bit polishing, but in my opinion it is a great moral stance of a browser. And the idea of paying your content producers and websites with your money/ad revenue is amazing, because it creates an alternative for the horrible and intrusive ad revenue model the internet has been following the past decade.
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I completely agree about both the need for polish and the payment philosophy.
It does work pretty well with steemit, though. If a site doesn't work well with brave, I take it as a warning sign that they're probably doing some sort of information harvesting that I might not like, and I think twice before visiting in a different browser.
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Yeah, and I also think that steemit and brave are two instances of the same philosophy. The idea of curating content directly yourself, and rewarding it with microtransactions. I hope this is the future, because it is amazing.
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Exactly! And Brave is open source. I was wondering if some of the steem blockchain experts could modify it to deliver payments in steem instead of btc... I think the browser wallet comes from bitgo.com, though, so that might be a tall order. All things come to those who wait, I hope.
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