Using Presearch With The Brave Browser Extension Directly From The Address Bar
Yesterday, I have published an article about Presearch, the decentralized search engine, that doesn't spy on you and pays you with PRE tokens (ERC-20) for searching the web with them. Since I got many replies from people, asking whether Presearch works with the popular Brave Browser and how to beat the habit of just using Google instead, I decided to make a follow-up post. Please read my previous post first, to learn more about what Presearch is and how it works.
 | Presearch - A Decentralized Search Engine Where You Earn While Searching The Web |
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My referral link: https://www.presearch.org/signup?rid=1414269
Using The Brave Browser Extension
Presearch offers browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
However, I will focus on the popular Brave Browser, which is build on top of the open-source Chrome browser and improved with multiple security layers and even its own native reward token BAT (Basic Attention Token). It even features private windows with the Tor system, hiding your ISP from the websites you are opening.
Personally, I think this is by far the best browser on the market and many here on LeoFinance share this sentiment with me.
Presearch.org Search Extension
Since Brave is build on top of Chrome, most Chrome extensions work flawlessly with Brave as well. This is also true for Presearch, whose users are often very familiar with cryptocurrencies in general and the Brave browser in specific.
You can find the Presearch extension in the Chrome Webstore:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/presearchorg-search-exten/inpoelmimmiplkcldmdljiboidfkcfbh
All it does is simply making your address bar automatically using the Presearch engine. You can see the Presearch logo on the left of the bar, when nothing is entered into it.
When you now type anything into the bar (except for a URL) and press ENTER, the extension will send your search to Dsearch.com (which, unlike Presearch.org, will show PRE staked keyword ads on the top) and show you the search results from the Presearch engine. If logged into your account, you will see your PRE rewards on the top right of the search results screen.
You should know that Dsearch will not reward PRE tokens directly when you search on Dsearch.com and only works as intended when doing the search THROUGH Presearch. You can learn more about Presearch vs Dsearch in this official article. If you use the browser extension you cannot do anything wrong, in that regard.
That's pretty much it. With this extension you will always use Presearch and earn PRE tokens with every search you do via the address bar. I never use any search engine directly and rely entirely on my Brave Browser address bar to search the web. This makes it super easy to brake any old habit of using Google and finally get rewarded for what is a multi-billion Dollar business.
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After reading your article yesterday I went to check how I was getting on with my Presearch earnings only to discover I wasn't getting any. 😢
A couple of months back I'd read a post here that you could use Presearch with Brave and so set it up. However, I set presearch as my preferred search engine by hand (as I'd read elsewhere) and that seems to have mucked it up.
It took me ages to work out what the problem was but when I started afresh and touched nothing I got DSearch coming up automatically. So now I'm up and running again.
All my coins from pre Brave days are still there too so that's a nice bonus. 😊
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That's tough indeed, I haven't really used the plugin for Brave only because I'm afraid of that situation where it's not working lol so I use their launch page instead. Keep on earning those tokens!
You can immediately see if it works by checking the search result page, which should be Dsearch.com and by either refreshing it or going to Presearch.org to check if your PRE has grown since your last search. If it does, you have set it up right and shouldn't worry anymore. I never had any problems with it.
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Yeah true, one of these days I'll do it. I am trying to set my wife up with using it instead of the evil Gulag, so I need to make it as easy as possible for her to use it lol
The moral of the story is just use the extension and don't change your settings in Brave. I think the instructions I followed at first must have been old ones. It's pretty simple nowadays. 😊
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ENGAGEtokens.Sorry to read that you missed out on your PRE rewards because of some user error. Have you now tried to browser extension? Your search results will show the DSearch logo on the top left and you can see your PRE rewards on the top right. Refresh the page after a search to see how PRE increase. If it does, you have done everything correct.
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I didn't miss out too much. 😊
It's only the tokens from the last few weeks that I didn't get because, unbeknown to me, I was still searching with Google. But it's all sorted now. 😁
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That's great to see a bunch of folks on here are using Presearch! I'm hoping that I helped convince some to get into it :D
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I have been using the Brave Browser with Presearch as my preferred Search engine and i love the combination. The occasional non intrusive ad from Brave, combined with the search reward by Presearch, allows me to slowly accumulate BAT and PRE tokens.
I agree with your post. It's a win win.
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Very nice!
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