

But Brendan Eich, the controversial creator of the JavaScript programming language and cofounder and former CTO of Mozilla, thinks his company Brave Software has found a way to revive that old idea.īrave makes a browser based on Google Chrome that blocks tracking scripts and other technologies that spy on your online activity. These schemes largely disappeared after the dot-com crash.

You could install a program that tracked your browsing and showed you targeted ads at the top of the screen then AllAdvantage would give you a cut of the ad revenue you generated. If you were on the internet in the late 1990s, you might remember companies like AllAdvantage that promised to pay you to surf the web.
