There is no way insurance companies aren't paying huge amounts of data to calculate rates offered to individuals based on thousands of data points. I've seen several sites give me one price when I was logged in without an ad blocker, and then a lower price after clearing my cookies. Perhaps that collection agency decided they wouldn't discount the medical bills because they know 'you can afford it'.

Maybe that mortgage or car loan rate you applied for came back a little higher than others would have received on the same day. That's why I believe a lot of value all these trackers provide to various companies is not so much the typical 'buy this product now' pop-up that you're thinking, but instead more nefarious value-adds. > That would mean a significant portion of my monthly spending (much more than $200) would have to be directly driven by advertising. And of course, Brave ads are optional and opt-in. This prevents slow downs of the page, keeping your browsing focused, while still allowing support of content creators. Brave ads are different: rather than intrusive in-page ads, Brave ads show up as a notification in your operating system outside of the page. If so, you get paid in BAT, which you can then distribute to content creators. You tell Brave if you're willing to see ads, and how often. if you watch a particular YouTube channel 30% of your browsing time, it will send 30% of 10 BAT each month to that content creator. 10 BAT/month), and Brave distributes it the sites you use most, e.g. You set your browser to reward content creators with Basic Attention Token (BAT). It's really great, and I feel this may be a reasonable alternative to the invasive trackers+ads we have today.įor the uninitiated, Brave lets users opt-in to Brave rewards: I've been using Brave rewards, both as a user and a content maker.

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