I don't think you'll find a alternate non-Apple/Google/Microsoft player with similar backing.
Has a built-in wallet to pay content creators with cryptocurrency (-totally optional.
Browser: https://brave.com/
Basic Attention Token: https://basicattentiontoken.org/
If no one chooses to use their Basic Attention Token, will the project survive?
They're seeding the ecosystem by giving BAT away to users so they can start paying content creators: "Brave grants 300,000 crypto tokens to browser users"--https://basicattentiontoken.org/brave-grants-300000-crypto-t....
BAT is an investment that the current situation with how advertising works on the web isn't sustainable--over 600 million users with ad blockers installed and climbing.
We know we need a way to pay for content that doesn't suck, so lets build it into the browser and make it a mostly automatic and anonymous, based on the amount of time spent on web sites.
In addition, the goal is for BAT to be used by advertisers to create a decentralized ad exchange where users who opt-in to watching privacy-respecting, quality-made ads get compensated in BAT (that's coming in the next 3-6 months.)
Users who chose to watch and receive BAT can then pay other content creators with it, including on Youtube.
Lastly, BAT is actively traded--the market cap is close to $349 million @ $0.39/BAT and over 16 million tokens in the past 24 hours: https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/basic-attention-to...
The thread was about how only the big guys can afford to make a browser but here's a startup that is going after Google's core business using Chromium's code.
Lots going on here; I can't do it all justice; this video should help--https://vimeo.com/209336437.
Plus the latest community update--https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/7ljinb/bat_comm...