Recently I've seen quite a few articles complaining about Brave browser and BAT performance. It seems the Brave users have become upset with their BAT earnings, BAT's price, and the bugs in the Brave browser.
I was a bit surprised because less than a year ago there was quite a lot of hype around Brave and BAT everywhere. Brave was "the best", "the fastest", "the privatest", and so on. BAT was doomed to XX-ple in price, up to $1 or even more! Not to mention 10 bucks (or even 20?) for every referred install.
At that time I made a note on Brave (actually, I wrote about three browsers that were hyped at that time, and Brave was one of them).
Well, I knew it, I knew it!!!!1
To attach a pay-per-view faucet, a useless second-party's crypto-wallet, a third-party's open-sourced ad-cutter to a fourth-party's messed-up open-sourced codebase and to push it for 10 bucks for every install doesn't look much like a sound business model... Sometimes it may work out, of course, but success is not always guaranteed.
I don't want to go into details about online advertising, incentivized advertising, and so on. Also, I don't mean that Brave browser is bad (actually, it's no worse than many other Google Chromium's clones). I even think that Brave's idea of users rewarding website owners through "tips" is a rather interesting one, when implemented properly.
It's good to use Brave, as long as it physically works! But is BAT really going to XX-ple in price?