The advent of twenty first century has moved us quickly from connecting to Internet to being able to use the services on Internet. One of the most concrete pillars of the internet foundation is Google and most of us just start the Internet surfing with Google Search Engine and a Chrome browser.
All the services offered by Google are mostly free to use. There must be some economic gains despite this fact, as their revenue is increasing parabolically.
Google Chrome uses trackers to keep an eye over your movement on the internet. An individual’s interest is just bypassed by Google to use this information.This is there revenue model.
Google have complete control over the trends rising in the market. This piece of information valuable for the market to prepare itself. As, Google is single most entity in the industry have almost complete control of user’s data over internet.This information can be your political interest or rising interest over anything on the internet. Google will be the first to know and can be selective to sell this information for economic gains.
Last year European Union accused Google of manipulating search result to give advantage to its own/sponsored product and charged them with a billion dollar fine.
This is making the market unfair for everyone. As a user you are compromising your movement which originally belongs to you and may be used against you to market you unfair products.
As a service provider or small business, your capability can be managed by Google to give popularity to it’s own/sponsored products silently killing innovation and fair competition in the market. Since,the better part of World exists on internet, a Centralized entity is gaining so huge control over user’s interest can make Google a super power which can forecast a countries Election’s results to your destiny.
If i visited a website, that piece of information should be in between me and the website owner and if some one else is keeping an eye over it without anyone’s consent, then I must be compensated as this information is valuable when we gather trends in the larger frame.
Blockchain Technology along with Cryptocurrencies can provide ways to enable trust on the internet and threats to provide a better and safer internet.
Duck Duck Go- It is a internet search Engine focusing mainly on search privacy while filtering out the bubble of personalized search. The traffic on Duck Duck Go is increasing and considered as the best alternative for Google Search Engine.
The man behind this project has a strong history of contributing to epic things available today. Brendan Eich, he developed Javascript in about 10 days and contributed largely in Mozilla Firefox browser. Now, he is upto develop a new Browser with inbuilt privacy feature along with many other feature.
“Who owns your attention? Who owns your web browsing experience? Who gets paid? If not you, then you’re “product”. Time to get paid.”
Brave is a fast free open source browser based on chromium with a built in privacy feature making your presence valuable on the Internet.
Brave Browser has built in Ad blockers to ensure you a faster and safer internet where your presence can be monetized with tokennized economy(BAT Token).
With use of bots and ignorant behavior towards Ads has significantly increased. Installation of Ad blockers have surpassed over 600 million installs.The Ad blocker industry is silently killing the presence of publisher who wants to get attention to their creation or product. Google Ads signifies more on getting clicks rather than channelizing valuable attention to the right audience. Despite having Ad blocker and trackers disabled, Brave provide ways to publishers to gain attention/money eliminating the need of any third party involvement.
The best part is that at no point user’s private information leaves the device. Using Blockchain Technology, Brave allow advertisers to target the right audience and provide rewards for user’s attention with BAT Token(Basic Attention Token).
BAT Token is native Cryptocurrency within the browser and is traded against Bitcoin, Ether on popular Exchanges and can be instantly withdrawn using a uphold wallet.
Brave Payments enable publishers,Youtubers and website owners to receive payments in BAT token. This can be proved a better tool to gain to receive love if you have a fan following or just you want monetize your content over internet. Just a simple verification to prove ownership can enable to monetize your attention.
Once a user enables Brave Payments, the Brave browser automatically and anonymously keeps track of the publisher sites each user visits. The more times that a user visits a site, the larger the proportion of the user’s monthly contribution is “ear-marked” for that publisher. When contributions for a publisher exceed $100.00 USD, an email is sent to both the webmaster of the site and the registered domain owner from your WHOIS information. The email explains how to verify the ownership of your website with Brave Software.
Learn More on Brave Payments- https://brave.com/publishers/
Download Brave Browser- https://brave.com/aka468
A proper alternative to Youtube
Bit Tube is decentralized video streaming platform which uses IPFS technology to give viewers and publishers the direct control of the content valuation without introducing Ads into the platform.
It uses Proof of Airtime mechanism to reward publishers with their native Cryptocurrencry TUBE. No spamming with views, you get paid for the time your video/Content being watched. To be precise 70% of the revennue goes to the publisher, 20% to the viewers and 10% to the platform development fund. Which means you get paid for watching videos also.
There is no Censorship on the platform. And since its uses IPFS protocol, which allow peer to peer file sharing, there is no single point of failure. The video uploaded by an individual is distributed throughout the network without any central control authority or server.
The developers are in plan of a global debit card which can be used to with draw tube to real cash near instantly.
Website Link- https://bit.tube/
Conclusion
Platform and services like Brave Browser and Bit Tube is embracing Blockchain to create a trustless environment over internet eliminating the need of any third force involvement. The projects are still in early development phase and can be be seen as a safer alternatives to the services offered by Google or Google like Entities.
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