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User Cooperative's mobile browser

What we mean by "equity for your clicks"

PROFITS

You get a share of our profits in proportion to your browser clicks.

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Browse across devices

Sign into your browser from any device to access your recent tabs, bookmarks, saved passwords, and more.

A VOTE

You get a vote in governing everything we do.

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Autofill

Save names, passwords, addresses, payment information and more to quickly autofill your details.

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Extensions

Shopping, entertainment, productivity... You can add all sorts of extensions to improve your experience.

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Covert mode

Browse without sharing your browsing history, being tracked by third party cookies, and more.

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Privacy controls

Easy to access and use browser settings to control what you share while you use your browser.

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Standard safety features

Safety features and updates that ensure you’re safe and secure while you’re browsing.

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Password manager

Save, manage, and protect your passwords online, and create stronger passwords for your accounts.

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Set your default search engine

You can choose from an array of search engines to set as your default search engine. 

How we intend to make a profit

Our goals by the end of 2024

$1 million in donations

100,000 members

Start browser development

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Frequently asked questions

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Collect donations

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As our startup money from members and foundations.

  • A cooperative is a business that's 100% owned and democratically governed by the people who use its services, not traditional shareholders, and it distributes its profits to its user-owners in proportion to their use. These user-owners are called "members." Learn more about cooperatives.

  • The data, intellectual property, and revenue that we (consumers) stream through our internet clicks make up the capital foundations that tech companies use to derive almost all of their worth. And these foundations yield personal insights and technological advances, like “artificial intelligence,” that expose each and every one of us to risks, like those to our autonomy and livelihood, that we can't practically fathom, let alone hedge. Our market system typically allocates company profits and control, or company “equity,” to those who take significant risks to capitalize companies, or, in other words, provide them with something they need to do business. Considering these realities of consumer clicks and market norms, we have an incontrovertible “fair-market” justification to wholly (100%) profit from and control the tech companies we use as their users, and it’s high time for a tech company to make such equity available to us. So, we (User Cooperative) have made it our life’s work to get you equity for your internet clicks, and we're getting it done through a cooperative, or “user-owned,” framework. Learn more about why equity for your clicks

  • Our members democratically govern everything we do through their powers to (1) elect our board of directors, which manages all of our business affairs, and (2) propose and vote on any specific matter of business. For example, through these powers, our members control how we collect and use data; control our algorithms; introduce or amend the terms, policies, and standards that govern use; and hire and fire key staff. Learn more about member governance.

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Use donations

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To recruit more members, develop our web browser, and monetize our browser.

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Monetize our browser

Examples of User Cooperative's in-browser ads

Generate search engine royalties and sell targeted ads, which are displayed in new tabs, notifications, sponsored content, etc.

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Hear it from the founder

Matt Martensen introduces User Cooperative. (Coming soon.)

NO SHAREHOLDERS

All of our profits and votes go to you and your fellow browser users.

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WE ARE AN

Early-stage cooperative web browser company 

User Cooperative's desktop and mobile browsers

Meet User Cooperative

OUR PROMISE TO YOU

Equity for your clicks on a standard, free-to-use web browser

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Get equity for your clicks

Become a member, donate some startup money, and sit back, while we make you a revolutionary web browser.

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Automatic updates

Regular updates so that you have the newest features and a better browsing experience.

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Your own look and feel

Themes, including dark mode and other options so that you can personalize your browser.   

Get equity for your clicks

on a standard, free-to-use web browser

The features we promise you on our "standard" web browser

WHY WE'RE DOING THIS

You capitalize tech companies with your clicks, and it's time for a tech company to grant you equity for them.

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Recruit members

Among the billions of consumers who we believe want equity for their clicks.

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