Is it from ByteDance Team, right? The team behind TikTok, CapCut, BuzzVideo and more. Any thoughts on that?

Like BYD vs Tesla. US is getting more and more late and more closed than ever (e.g. Chinese Qwen LLM versus LLaMA). So long-term, China may emerge as the dominating force in tech.

I'm the only one wondering why that should be a (good) news?

I mean: are the user rewarded for the attention (the logic behind BAT) or it's just another search engine with another search ads ?

Mine is an honest question, not a complaining.

An indenpendent search engine that doesn't track you seems like a good thing to me. Remember, half the nastiness of modern ads is that they track you and are also pretty heavy. In a search engine it's much easier to get the targeting from your search query without tracking you - something eg. DuckDuckGo also does. Helps keep the lights on.

Been using Brave Android since 2017, have never used BAT or whatever "value-add" bloatware they've offered. It can be disabled from the menu, two taps max.

Nice try, but kinda difficult to make it works with pr system.

What about this https://github.com/beatcracker/toptout ? You can opt-out from just one place.

Author here, feel free to ask me anything.

Btw, currently I have a huge backlog of telemetry to add, so I wouldn't mind some help. If anyone interested, have a look at the GitHub issues in this repo. The repo itself contains all docs and examples to get you started.