Brave at Mobile World Congress #MWC19
Last week, Brave attended Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and unveiled its experiential booth to explain how it’s reinventing online advertising with its global ad platform built on privacy. Check out Brendan Eich’s showfloor interview with Mobile World Live for...Significant Battery Savings with Brave on Mobile: Brave Consumes 40% Less Battery than Other Leading Browsers
Brave mobile users can expect up to two and a half extra hours of browsing per battery charge. This research was conducted by Dr. Matteo Varvello, performance researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. We are continuing our series of posts...Brave Software and TAP Network Put Blockchain to Work with New Partnership
Two Blockchain Pioneers Join Forces to Reward Users for Attention and Help Brands Reach New Audiences Through Private Ads Barcelona – Feb. 26, 2019 – Brave Software, an innovative privacy browser combined with a blockchain based digital advertising platform, and TAP...AMA with Ben Livshits
Welcome to the thirteenth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is an eight-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an...Memory Savings in Brave: 33% to 66% memory reduction over Chrome
This research was conducted by Dr. Andrius Aucinas, performance researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. We are continuing our series of posts evaluating Brave browser’s performance. This time we look at one aspect that often...Blockchain MarTech Industry Grows by 1,218% in 18 months
Never Stop Marketing Research and Brave Software Collaborate to Help Enterprise Marketers Harness Blockchain Potential Rapidly New York and San Francisco, February 13, 2019 —- Never Stop Marketing Research, the leading research firm on the intersection of...Script Blocking Exceptions Update
We have received many questions about script blocking exceptions being reported by several news outlets and blogs. This conversation is about script loading, not tracking. Loading a script from an edge-cache does not track a user without third-party cookies or...Earn Basic Attention Token, or BAT, With Coinbase Earn
In an effort to make BAT easier to use and easier to understand, Brave Software is working with Coinbase Earn, a product that allows users to earn utility tokens by viewing and completing educational tasks. $5 million, denominated in BAT, is being designated for this...AMA with Joel Reis and Sergey Zhukovsky
Welcome to the twelfth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity...Cheddar Partnership
CHEDDAR AND BRAVE PARTNER TO OFFERPREMIUM CHEDDAR CONTENT TO BRAVE BROWSER USERS NEW YORK, NY and SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 29th, 2019 – Cheddar, the leading post-cable news, media, and entertainment company, and Brave Software, an innovative privacy browser...AMA with Tom Lowenthal
Welcome to the eleventh post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity...Brave Previews Opt-in Ads in Desktop Browser Developer Channel
New online advertising model upends current systemwith 70% revenue share to users and privacy by design Today we’re previewing our new digital advertising model in Brave’s Developer channel. Developers and testers using the latest desktop browser build for macOS and...Brave passes 5.5 million monthly active users and features over 28,000 Verified Publishers
2018 highlights include 5X MAU growth, major product redesigns, and key partnerships As we look ahead to 2019 and our upcoming Brave 1.0 release with Brave Ads that will reward users for their attention with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), we wanted to share some of our...Brave Rewards Update
Brave Rewards is our anonymous donation system integrated directly into the Brave desktop browser. It is accessible to users from the URL bar via the BAT (Basic Attention Token) logo, and though off by default, can be easily switched on with the slider. Publishers and...New BAT Tipping Banner for Brave Creators, Available with Today’s Desktop Browser Update
Today we’re releasing Brave 0.58, the latest update to our Chromium-based desktop browser, available for download for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Along with this update, Brave-verified publishers and creators can customize Tipping Banners for their sites, YouTube...Brave Software Joins AdLedger
Non-Profit Blockchain Consortium Unites Industry-LeadingTechnology Companies To Reform The Future Of Digital Advertising New York, NY — December 19, 2018 — AdLedger, the non-profit research and development consortium building and implementing the...AMA with Ryan Watson and Kamil Jozwiak
Welcome to the tenth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...New Brave version now available for download for iPhones and iPads, with significant performance gains
We are excited to announce that the latest version of Brave (1.7) for iOS is now available for download at the App Store. This is a major release as we have replaced the browser engine with WKWebView. WKWebView is the part of the browser which fetches and renders...Brave Upgrades Users of its Desktop Browser to its Redesigned, Faster Version
New Chromium-based release automatically replaces previous Muon-based version with seamless migration Starting today, Brave users who are currently browsing with our Muon-based desktop version (0.25.2) will receive a notification to upgrade to our redesigned...AMA with Alex Wykoff
Welcome to the ninth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...“Best of the Brave” Video Contest Winners Are Rewarded with 115K BAT
On September 26, we launched a video contest for Brave-verified online publishers and creators. Participants were asked to upload a video to YouTube in order to celebrate our recent milestone of 4 million monthly active users and explain why they’re excited about our...AMA with Luke Mulks
Welcome to the eighth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...SpeedReader: Fast and Private Reader Mode for the Web
This post is an abbreviated version of this report, based on research conducted at Brave by Andrius Aucinas (Performance Researcher), Peter Snyder (Privacy Researcher), and Dr. Ben Livshits (Chief Scientist), as well as by Mohammad Ghasemisharif (Ph.D student in...AMA with Brian Brown
Welcome to the seventh post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity...AMA with Sampson
Welcome to the sixth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...Brave Sponsors Cal Hacks 5.0, the World’s Largest Collegiate Hackathon
Prizes Available for Participants who Create a Brave Browser Extension From November 2-4, 2018, Brave will be at U.C. Berkeley’s California Memorial Stadium as one of Cal Hacks’ sponsors, alongside leading technology companies. Brave is helping to connect 2,000...AMA with Yan Zhu
Welcome to the fifth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...New Brave Browser Release Available for General Download on Brave.com
Redesigned Chromium-based desktop version replaces previous Muon-based browser and delivers 22% faster load time Starting today, users who download a new version of the Brave desktop browser from the Brave website will be presented with Brave’s latest browser release,...The New Brave is 22% Faster
Newly Redesigned Chromium-Based Brave Browser Has 22% Faster Load Time than Brave Muon Version, on Average This research was conducted by Andrius Aucinas, performance researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. Back in March we announced the...AMA with David Temkin
Welcome to the fourth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...Beta Release of Redesigned Brave Desktop Browser is Available Today for Download and Testing
Today we’re releasing the first beta version of our upcoming Brave 1.0 browser for testing on our new Brave Beta Channel. This beta is a work in progress for developers and users who would like to see our latest advances. On September 6th, we released the first...Brave Launches 100K BAT “Best of the Brave” Video Contest for Online Creators and Publishers
Brave recently passed the 4 million bar of monthly active users (MAU), and has over 21,000 Verified Publishers. We’re celebrating this MAU milestone by inviting our community of creators and publishers to produce a short video about it, as well as why they’re excited...Civic to Offer Secure Identity Verification Services on the Brave Publisher Platform
Brave-verified Publishers with Civic Reusable KYC will be able to collect earned BATs with their own Ethereum wallets Civic, the global digital identity leader, and Brave, an innovative privacy browser combined with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform,...Fast and Private Brave Browser Chooses Qwant as its Default Search Engine in France and Germany
PARIS, France, and SAN FRANCISCO, USA — September 13th, 2018 – Brave, which combines an innovative privacy browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, and Qwant, the European search engine that respects the privacy of its users, announced...Brave ad-blocking browser gets Chrome’s extensions with major new version
Sep 6, 2018
CNET
If you like Brave but also like extensions to fine-tune your web surfing, good news: A new version of the ad-blocking browser arrived Thursday that makes it as customizable as Google’s rival Chrome.
Crypto-Funded Brave Browser Hits 10 Million Downloads in Google Play Store
Aug 28, 2018
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Brave Software has announced that its eponymous web browser has been downloaded from the Google Play Store 10 million times, doubling its user base in just four months. This was revealed in a post on its official Twitter handle last Friday.
Le navigateur Brave dépasse les 10 millions de téléchargements
Aug 28, 2018
Journal Du Coin
Les nouvelles se succèdent pour le navigateur Brave, et elles sont plutôt bonnes. Après avoir annoncé sa prochaine évolution consistant à rémunérer les comptes Twitter et Reddit de ses utilisateurs avec ses tokens BAT, on apprend que Brave a dépassé le chiffre de 10 millions de téléchargements !
Interview: Brendan Eich on JavaScript’s blessing and curse
Aug 17, 2018
InfoWorld
Being the creator of JavaScript has been a blessing and a curse for Brendan Eich. On the one hand, JavaScript has the distinction of being the most popular programming language in the world. On the other, no language has been the target of more snark.
Brave advances browser privacy with Tor-powered tabs
Jun 28, 2018
CNET
Want more online privacy? Brave, the ad-blocking browser, has a new way to get it on the web.
A new version of the browser released Thursday adds technology called onion routing from the Tor Project as an option to its private tabs. Tor helps keep you anonymous…
Blockchain browser Brave starts opt-in testing of on-device ad targeting
Jun 20, 2018
TechCrunch
Brave, an ad-blocking web browser with a blockchain-based twist, has started trials of ads that reward viewers for watching them — the next step in its ambitious push towards a consent-based, pro-privacy overhaul of online advertising.
What’s an Online Ad Worth? Blockchain Might Help With That
Jun 18, 2018
The Wall Street Journal
Digital advertising has a serious problem: fraud.
Widespread fraudulent practices are inflating measures of the traffic that digital ads attract, leading some advertisers to pay higher rates than they should.
Crypto-powered Brave Browser Hits 5 Million Downloads in Google Play Store
May 21, 2018
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Cryptocurrency-powered web browser Brave has now been downloaded more than five million times from the Google Play mobile app store.
The ad-blocking browser, which was co-founded by Mozilla Firefox creator Brendan Eich, reached this significant milestone last Thursday…
Ad-blocking Brave browser to give crypto-payment tokens to everyone
Apr 19, 2018
CNET
Startup Brave soon will give cryptocurrency-like payment tokens to anyone using the ad-blocking web browser, a move that won’t let you line your own pockets but that will make it easier to fund the websites you visit.
Ad-blocking browser Brave signs up Dow Jones Media Group as a partner
Apr 18, 2018
TechCrunch
It looks like at least one major news publisher is on-board with Brave, the ad-blocking web browser founded by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich.
Brave Software and Dow Jones Media Group announced today they will be partnering in a deal that will bring Media Group content…
AMA with Johnny Ryan
Welcome to the third post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series, which will run until January 2019, is twofold: to give fans...Few Realize “Private Mode” Is Not Really Private
Few Realize “Private Mode” Is Not Really Private Preliminary results of a user study This ongoing research is being conducted by Ruba Abu-Salma, a Ph.D student in Computer Science from University College London (UCL), and Brave’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Ben...AMA with Brian Bondy
On August 16th, the BAT Community successfully kicked off an AMA (Ask Me Anything!) series with CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich. The series, scheduled to run from August 2018 through January 2019, features several different guests from the Brave team every month and...AMA with Brendan Eich
On August 16th, BAT Community hosted the first in an upcoming series of AMAs (Ask Me Anything!) with Brendan Eich in the r/BATProject subreddit. Over the course of the AMA, Brendan answered a mix of pre-submitted and live questions from Redditors about Brave and the...Understanding Redirection-Based Tracking
This blog post describes ongoing work conducted at Brave by Peter Snyder and Ben Livshits. It is the third in a series of research-oriented posts that share both present investigations and future vision. We are constantly looking to improve and automate the privacy...Brave Browser iOS App Now Offers DuckDuckGo Search in Private Tabs
We recently partnered with DuckDuckGo to improve privacy on the web by integrating a new DuckDuckGo search feature within Private Tabs in Brave’s desktop browser. We’re excited to announce that this feature is now available to Brave iOS (version 1.6.3) users to give...Into the Blockchain: Brave with MetaMask
The decentralized web is there for exploring. Trails are being blazed with decentralized applications built on the Ethereum blockchain, with the MetaMask extension providing a bridge to explore and handle decentralized applications (Dapps) from a web browser....The Mounting Cost of Stale Ad Blocking Rules
This blog post describes ongoing work conducted at Brave by Antoine Vastel, Peter Snyder, and Ben Livshits. It is the second in a series of research-oriented posts that share both present investigations and future vision. We are constantly looking to improve and...Brave Passes 3 Million Monthly Active Users and Makes Top 10 List in the Play Store in 21 Countries
Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.
Brave Introduces Beta of Private Tabs with Tor for Enhanced Privacy while Browsing
Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.
Brave Welcomes Dr. Johnny Ryan to its Leadership Team as Chief Policy and Industry Relations Officer
Brave is pleased to announce that Dr. Johnny Ryan is joining the company as Chief Policy & Industry Relations Officer.
Brave Launches User Trials for Opt-In Ads That Reward Viewers
We’ve been busy building our new Basic Attention Token (BAT) platform, which includes a new consent-based digital advertising model that benefits users, publishers, and advertisers.
Brave Users Get Rewarded to Browse
Brave launches $500,000 BAT giveaway per month for browser users, alongside monthly payments to Brave Publishers.
Brave Proposes a Machine Learning Approach for Ad Blocking
This week, Brave unveiled new research that is under submission to an upcoming conference regarding how to improve and automate ad blocking with AdGraph, a graph-based machine learning approach for detecting ads and trackers on a given web page.
New Brave Version Features Tab Improvements for Enhanced Performance
Today we released a new desktop version of Brave (0.22.714) which features significant performance improvements for users who typically use many tabs and windows.
Global Brave News — Brave Officially Opens London Office and Presents in Singapore and Korea
Last week, Brave gave multiple presentations in a flash tour across Asia and signed a lease for new space for its London office.
Brave and Townsquare Partner to Monetize Ad-blocking Traffic and Test Blockchain-based Digital Advertising
Brave, which is combining an innovative privacy browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, and Townsquare Media, Inc., which owns and…
Brave Update: Partners, Creators, Users, and Growth – April 2018
Brave is excited to announce partnerships with Bart Baker and Philip DeFranco as we continue our mission of providing a better deal for online creators.
Dow Jones Media Group Partners With Brave Software To Offer Premium Content To Users and Test Blockchain-Based Payment Technology
Privacy web browser Brave Software and Dow Jones Media Group have announced a partnership aimed at bringing premium content to new audiences and testing blockchain technology usage in digital publishing.
Brave Distributes Million Dollar Referral Program to Content Creators
Privacy web browser Brave Software and Dow Jones Media Group have announced a partnership aimed at bringing premium content to new audiences and testing blockchain technology usage in digital publishing.
Brave Unveils Development Plans for Upcoming 1.0 Browser Release, Including Transition to Chromium Front-End
The Brave 1.0 browser for desktop operating systems is coming later this year and it will include several significant improvements that we’d like to share now.
Million Dollar BAT Giveaway to Brave Users Now Paid Out to Rewarded Content Creators
In January, we announced that we’d distribute $1 million worth of promotional BAT (Basic Attention Token) via user grants to Brave desktop browser wallets — ultimately to be contributed to website publishers and YouTube creators via Brave Payments.
Twitch Support
Today we’re announcing that Twitch streamers can earn revenue in connection with the Brave browser. As part of our commitment to Twitch, we have added up to an additional $1 million to our referral program for creators.
Let’s Encrypt Sponsorship
Why Supporting Let’s Encrypt Matters… …and Why Brave Integrates HTTPS Upgrades Today Brave is proud to announce its corporate sponsorship of Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA). Let’s Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet...Brave Launches Million Dollar Referral Program Supporting Publishers And YouTube Creators With Crypto-Tokens
Creators Earn Approximately 5 USD Worth of Promotional BAT for Each Active User They Bring to the Brave Browser Brave Software, which is combining an innovative browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, announced today that it is launching an up to...Multi-property Support Now Live for Brave-verified Creators
As part of our effort to make the Basic Attention Token platform even more efficient and easy to use for our thousands of verified sites and content creators, we recently upgraded our Publishers website to allow a single publisher account to manage multiple properties.
New Brave Release Available For Desktop Users With Across-the-board Improvements And Updates
Today we’re releasing a desktop browser update with highly-awaited features and performance improvements, as well as multiple fixes for issues reported by our user community.