This look at the open source Brave Browser is the first of five articles that FOSS Force will be running in January that will look at five web browsers that are alternatives to the dominate browsers, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.For example, for cookies a user can choose to block all cookies (which would make many sites all but unusable due to a lack of session ID), cross-site cookies only (the default setting, which keeps data from being collected for the likes of Google or Amazon, while giving the site access to information it needs), or not block cookies at all.The Brave Business Model Brave’s original plan for using the browser as an advertising platform didn’t work out well, although it should qualify for some sort of award for good old-fashioned chutzpah.“Seventy percent of the revenue from Brave’s ad sales would be shared with publishers (55%) and users (15%),” Gregg Keizer reported in Computerworld in April, 2016.By engaging in Brave’s plan of advertising replacement, Brave is liable for breach of contract, unauthorized access to our websites, unfair competition, and other causes of action.” The Brave browser folks acted quickly and put their replacement advertising plans on hold, although two years later the company announced “Brave Early Access,” a test of a similar project that involved about 1,000 volunteers using a customized Brave browser loaded with 250 ads set to run in rotation, evidently hoping that having the ads being served directly from the users’ browsers would help circumvent any legal liabilities."