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Welcome to the Brave blog. You’ve reached the front page for news on ad blocking, features, performance, privacy and Basic Attention Token related announcements.

Brave selected as the official browser for the 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship (Soccer tournament) in South Korea

Dec 9, 2019

San Francisco – December 9, 2019 – Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced that the Brave browser was selected as the official browser for the 2019 E-1...

Brave Passes 10 Million Monthly Active Users, and Sees 19% Growth since 1.0 Launch

Dec 5, 2019

Brave 1.0 was released on November 13th and received very positive press reviews, and also saw a surge in user adoption. Brave went from 8.7 million monthly active users in October to 10.4 million MAU at the end of November, a 19% increase across all platforms.

Brave warns US Senate & Congress: foreign state actors can use targeted ads to run code on US government computers, exploiting conventional browsers

Nov 13, 2019

Brave warns US Senate & Congress: foreign state actors can use targeted ads to run code on US government computers, exploiting conventional browsers

Brave Launches Next-Generation Browser that Puts Users in Charge of Their Internet Experience with Unmatched Privacy and Rewards

Nov 13, 2019

The Industry’s Most Advanced Browser Offers 3-6x Faster Browsing and Ends Surveillance Capitalism with a Private Ads and Payment Platform that Benefits Users, Advertisers, and Publishers Brave Rewards Now Available on iOS, Completing Cross-Platform Availability San...

Brave Software Finds 82% of People Wish the Web Were More Privacy-Oriented

Nov 13, 2019

Brave exposes an inflection point in the online ecosystem, with more users feeling increasingly concerned with protecting their online privacy and fed up with big tech.

The road to Brave 1.0

Nov 13, 2019

Over the past 4 ½ years I've been helping to build a "big" new startup named Brave. It's been a wild ride, far exceeding anything I could have imagined. The company has grown from a team of 2, to over 100 passionate mission-driven teammates. Our user base has grown to 8.7 million monthly active users. Our users help support over 300,000 registered content creators via micropayments. And our community is growing and thriving more every day.

Ryan’s testimony at International Grand Chamber: RTB data breach enables disinformation. Enforcers can be sued.

Nov 11, 2019

Ryan's testimony at International Grand Chamber: RTB data breach enables disinformation. Enforcers can be sued.

Brave, Fingerprinting, and Privacy Budgets

Nov 6, 2019

This work was written by Peter Snyder, Privacy researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave's Chief Scientist. One of Brave’s core goals is to protect peoples’ privacy online, and to prevent online trackers from following you around the Web. Brave protects users...

In Partnership with The Giving Block, Brave Selects The Tor Project as the Latest Grant Recipient of Brave Ads

Nov 4, 2019

In the first two weeks, the campaign has resulted in 344,555 views and 30,995 clicks.The Tor Project became a Brave Ads Grants recipient on October 17th. As part of the program, Tor is receiving approximately $10,000 in free advertisements per month to engage with...

Everipedia and Brave Announce Partnership

Oct 30, 2019

Brave to be Featured on Everipedia Homepage, Everipedia Ads to be Featured within Brave GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – October 30, 2019: Everipedia, the world’s largest blockchain-based encyclopedia, and Brave, a privacy browser combined with a blockchain-based...

Brave input to California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CPERA)

Oct 29, 2019

Brave input to California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CPERA)

Accurately Predicting Ad Blocker Savings

Oct 21, 2019

Estimating the slow road not taken We have written before on Brave’s performance, energy and bandwidth benefits for the user. Brave Shields is our primary mechanism for protecting user privacy, but many users know by now that ad and tracker blocking (or just ad blocking for short) makes the web faster and generally better for them. So far Brave’s estimates of the users’ time saved have been very conservative and somewhat naive: we take the total number of ads and trackers blocked, and multiply that by 50 milliseconds. Why this specific number? It is at the low end of what others have estimated to be third-party JavaScript execution overheads, but in fact both in the third-party impact study and in our measurements in this study, the average and median impact of an ad or tracker is more than 10 times higher. Clearly, it is time for an update.

Brave reaches 8 million monthly active users and delivers nearly 400 privacy-preserving ad campaigns

Oct 16, 2019

High platform engagement persists with 14% click-through rate, compared to 2% industry average Brave is growing on the user front, with daily active users passing the 2.8 million mark recently, and monthly active users now at 8 million. There are also over 290,000...

Brave highlights critical CCPA omission in letter to the Attorney General of California

Oct 15, 2019

Brave has written to the Attorney General of California to highlight a critical omission in the CCPA regulations proposed last week.

Brave writes to all European governments to press for strong ePrivacy protections

Oct 10, 2019

Brave has written to EU Member States to urge the prohibition of cookie walls, and the inclusion of privacy by default, in the ePrivacy Regulation.

Competition issues in digital markets

Oct 7, 2019

This note presents a submission from Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave, and Dr Orla Lynskey of the London School of Economics, to the UK Competition & Markets Authority.

zkSENSE: a privacy-preserving mechanism for bot detection in mobile devices

Oct 7, 2019

This research was conducted by Stan (Jiexin) Zhang, a research intern at Brave and a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Security Researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Chief Scientist at Brave. We gratefully acknowledge the...

Brave Partners with Uphold to Launch Wallet That Rewards Users for Browsing

Oct 3, 2019

BAT Rewards can now be transferred into users’ Uphold accounts With today’s updated Brave browser for desktop (0.69), Brave users can choose to transfer Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) out of their Brave Rewards wallet and convert the tokens to many digital assets and...

VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Virtual Private Network

Oct 2, 2019

This research presents VPN⁰, the first distributed virtual private network offering a privacy preserving traffic authorization and validation mechanism. This research was conducted by Dr. Matteo Varvello (Performance Researcher at Brave), Iñigo...

Why marketers must conduct GDPR Data Protection Impact Assessments of RTB

Sep 24, 2019

This note examines the GDPR requirement that marketers conduct data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) when buying digital media using “real-time bidding” advertising.

Brave Tops Browser First-Run Network Traffic Results

Sep 18, 2019

What does a browser do when you first launch it? One of the first things most of us do when sitting down at our computer is launch a web browser. By and large, we’re usually re-launching a browser that we were using hours before. As such, we’re picking up where we...

Brave uncovers Google’s GDPR workaround

Sep 4, 2019

Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.

Wikipedia is now a Brave Verified Publisher, Ready to Receive BAT Donations from Brave Users

Aug 28, 2019

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has joined the Brave platform as a Verified Publisher. Created in 2001, Wikipedia is edited and verified by volunteers around the world. Wikipedia is offered in 300 languages containing a total of more than 50 million articles,...

Privacy-Preserving Product Analytics (P3A)

Aug 22, 2019

Introduction At Brave, we want our browser not only to provide the best protection against the surveillance economy, but to be the very best way to experience the web. We rely extensively on community feedback to make sure that the product provides the most vital...

With Yubico partnership and support for the new YubiKey 5Ci, Brave is the first web browser to offer secure phishing-resistant authentication via robust security keys on iPhones & iPads

Aug 20, 2019

Earlier this summer, Brave and Yubico announced a partnership to bring YubiKey support to Brave for iOS. Yubico is the leading provider of hardware security keys which use the U2F and WebAuthn protocols to provide secure phishing-resistant authentication for online...

Response to IAB Europe statement on its failure to answer the Irish Data Protection Commission

Aug 13, 2019

Dr Johnny Ryan responds to a statement from IAB Europe regarding its failure to answer the Irish Data Protection Commission. Four months on, both I and the Data Protection Commission are still waiting for the first explanation of how “IAB Europe is confident that the way it obtains consent for the use of cookies on its website complies with the requirements of the law”.

IAB Europe fails to answer Irish Data Protection Commission

Aug 9, 2019

IAB Europe fails to answer questions from Irish Data Protection Commission arising from formal GDPR complaint by Brave's Dr Ryan against IAB Europe's "forced consent" and consent walls.

Brave’s Luke Mulks among DMN’s 2019 40UNDER40 Award Winners

Aug 4, 2019

We are proud to announce that Luke Mulks, director of business development at Brave, was recognized as one of the top 40 game-changers impacting the marketing and advertising industry for the 2019 DMN 40under40 Awards. Winners of the 2019 40UNDER40 Award presented by...

Tipping with Brave

Aug 1, 2019

Tip Your Favorite Twitter Creators with Brave Great content keeps us coming back to the same sources, whether it’s reading Web sites, engaging with our favorite influencers on social media, or watching our go-to channels. Compelling and original content leads to...

Guest AMA with Alex Wilson & Patrick Duffy of The Giving Block

Jul 22, 2019

Welcome to the twenty-second post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams, and, as of recently, guests from projects that Brave partners or works with. The most recent AMA took...

Brave Expands Advertising Platform to Mobile Devices and Launches Brave Ads Certified Vendor Program

Jul 11, 2019

Privacy-preserving Brave Ads now available on Brave Android browser, rewarding users with BAT Two months after launching the first advertising platform built on privacy for its desktop users, Brave is making it available on its Android app. Users who consent to...

Guest AMA with Taylor Monahan & Jordan Spence of MyCrypto

Jun 27, 2019

Welcome to the twenty first post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams, and, as of recently, guests from projects that Brave partners or works with. The most recent AMA took...

Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance by 69x with New Engine Implementation in Rust

Jun 26, 2019

This blog was written by Dr. Andrius Aucinas, performance researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. Brave Shields, which protect users’ privacy from trackers and ads, are one of the cornerstone components of the browser involved in handling...

A summary of the ICO report on RTB – and what happens next

Jun 26, 2019

This note summarizes the ICO report on real-time bidding, which vindicates the GDPR complaints initiated by Brave, and points toward the solution.

Adding YubiKey Support to Brave for iOS

Jun 24, 2019

We're excited to partner with Yubico to bring YubiKey support to Brave for iOS. Yubico is the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys — devices which protect logins to online accounts from phishing, man-in-the-middle, and other threats of account...

AMA with Marshall Rose

Jun 20, 2019

Welcome to the twentieth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams, and, as of recently, guests from projects that Brave partners or works with. The most recent AMA took place on...

Major publisher group DCN tells regulators “the sky won’t fall” if RTB switches to safe, non-personal data.

Jun 19, 2019

DCN's CEO, Jason Kint, says removing personal data from bid requests might disadvantage adtech companies, but the sky won’t fall for publishers.

Brave answers US Senators questions on privacy and antitrust

Jun 17, 2019

Brave answers Senators Whitehouse, Booker, Graham and Leahy’s questions for the record from the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on privacy and anti-trust.

Guest AMA with Daniel Gouldman and Ian Kane of Ternio

Jun 14, 2019

Welcome to the nineteenth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams, and, as of recently, guests from projects that Brave partners or works with. The latest AMA took place on...

Supporting The Web Privacy Community

Jun 13, 2019

Brave is a proud member of the Web privacy community. Brave relies on the terrific work of the Tor Project, EasyList/EasyPrivacy communities, Disconnect, and the uBlock Origin/uMatrix projects, among many others, to protect Brave users’ privacy. Brave contributes to...

AMA with Jimmy Secretan

Jun 6, 2019

Welcome to the eighteenth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams, and, as of recently, guests from projects that Brave partners or works with. The latest AMA took place on...

Requirement Analysis of Decentralized Virtual Private Networks (dVPNs)

May 23, 2019

Despite some advantages over VPNs, current solutions for dVPNs lack strong privacy and performance guarantees. This research was conducted by Dr. Matteo Varvello, performance researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. In this blogpost we...

Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority for “suspected infringement” of the GDPR, following formal complaint from Brave

May 22, 2019

Today, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a major GDPR probe into “suspected infringement” by Google’s DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers advertising business. The probe was triggered by a formal complaint from Dr Johnny Ryan, Chief Policy Officer at Brave, the private web browser.

Partner AMA with Lin Dai

May 21, 2019

Welcome to the sixteenth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams, and, as of recently, guests from projects that Brave partners or works with. The most recent AMA took place on...

Dr Johnny Ryan’s testimony at the US Senate Judiciary Committee

May 21, 2019

Dr Johnny Ryan's testimony at the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Understanding the Digital Advertising Ecosystem and the Impact of Data Privacy and Competition Policy”.

Ad Tech GDPR complaint is extended to four more European regulators

May 20, 2019

GDPR complaints about Real-Time Bidding (RTB) in the online advertising industry were filed today with Data Protection Authorities in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The complaints detail the vast scale of personal data leakage by Google and other major companies in the “Ad Tech” industry.

Brave’s Concerns with the Client-Hints Proposal

May 9, 2019

Web Standards and User Privacy: Brave’s Concerns with the Client-Hints Proposal By Brave employees Pete Snyder, privacy researcher, Pranjal Jumde, security engineer, Tom Lowenthal, product manager for privacy and security, and Brian Clifton, development manager for...

Brave Launches the First Advertising Platform Built on Privacy

Apr 24, 2019

With 70% revenue share to users, Brave Ads deliver effective advertisingwhile giving users privacy and control Starting today, users of Brave’s latest release of the desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux can choose to view privacy-preserving Brave Ads by...

Brave Rewards on Android

Apr 17, 2019

Brave Rewards now in Brave Android App Brave Rewards is now available in the latest version of Brave for Android (1.0.91). To download it on your device, please visit the Google Play Store. Brave Rewards is the new way to help fund content on the Web while blocking...