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Brave’s Latest News

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.

Blockchain MarTech Industry Grows by 1,218% in 18 months

Feb 13, 2019

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 blockchain...

Script Blocking Exceptions Update

Feb 12, 2019

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

Feb 6, 2019

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

Jan 31, 2019

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

Jan 29, 2019

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...

Update on GDPR complaint (RTB ad auctions)

Jan 28, 2019

Brave and co-complainants in Poland, Ireland, and the UK submit new evidence about massive adtech leakage of highly intimate data.

Brave alerts the FTC about two major problems in digital media & services markets

Jan 22, 2019

Big tech companies “cross-use” user data from one part of their business to prop up others. This hurts innovation & choice. The FTC must investigate. Plus, the GDPR is emerging as a defacto international standard. Whether this helps or harms United States firms will be determined by whether the United States enacts and actively enforces robust federal privacy laws.

AMA with Tom Lowenthal

Jan 17, 2019

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

Jan 15, 2019

New online advertising model upends current systemwith 70% revenue share to users and privacy by designToday 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

Jan 5, 2019

2018 highlights include 5X MAU growth, major product redesigns, and key partnershipsAs 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

Dec 22, 2018

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

Dec 20, 2018

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

Dec 19, 2018

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 blockchain...

AMA with Ryan Watson and Kamil Jozwiak

Dec 13, 2018

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

Dec 12, 2018

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

Dec 7, 2018

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...

Brave requests European Commission antitrust examination of online ad market

Dec 4, 2018

Investigation needed to stop anticompetitive practices that hurt publishers, restrict innovation, and limit consumer choice.

38 businesses and organizations urge European Governments to break ePrivacy deadlock

Dec 3, 2018

Brave and a coalition of more than 30 businesses and organizations urges European Governments to break the deadlock on the ePrivacy Regulation in an open letter.

AMA with Alex Wykoff

Nov 29, 2018

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

Nov 27, 2018

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

Nov 26, 2018

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...

French regulator shows deep flaws in IAB’s consent framework and RTB

Nov 20, 2018

French regulator’s decision against Vectaury confirms that IAB “Transparency & Consent Framework” does not obtain valid consent, and illustrates how even tiny adtech companies can unlawfully gather millions of people’s personal data from the online advertising “real time bidding system” (RTB).

SpeedReader: Fast and Private Reader Mode for the Web

Nov 15, 2018

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

Nov 15, 2018

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...

Brave calls for a “United States GDPR” in letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Nov 6, 2018

Brave presents the case for a US federal privacy law that builds on the GDPR, protecting innovation, interoperability, and supporting US leadership.

AMA with Sampson

Nov 1, 2018

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

Oct 31, 2018

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

Oct 19, 2018

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

Oct 18, 2018

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

Oct 18, 2018

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...

Why GDPR is Kryptonite to Google & Facebook on Anti-Trust

Oct 10, 2018

This is Brave’s response to a call for stakeholder input from the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager.

AMA with David Temkin

Oct 5, 2018

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...

Brendan Eich writes to the US Senate: we need a GDPR for the United States

Oct 1, 2018

A ruling of the European Court of Justice this month in the “Facebook fan page case” exposes marketers to severe legal risk from programmatic advertising.

Beta Release of Redesigned Brave Desktop Browser is Available Today for Download and Testing

Sep 27, 2018

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

Sep 26, 2018

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

Sep 21, 2018

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...

Fast and Private Brave Browser Chooses Qwant as its Default Search Engine in France and Germany

Sep 13, 2018

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...

Regulatory complaint concerning massive, web-wide data breach by Google and other “ad tech” companies under Europe’s GDPR

Sep 12, 2018

Dublin, Ireland and London, United Kingdom,...

AMA with Johnny Ryan

Sep 6, 2018

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...

Critical data protection problems in the IAB’s new OpenRTB 3.0 Spec

Sep 4, 2018

A ruling of the European Court of Justice this month in the “Facebook fan page case” exposes marketers to severe legal risk from programmatic advertising.

Few Realize “Private Mode” Is Not Really Private

Aug 29, 2018

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 Livshits. The final findings will be submitted as a paper in the next several weeks....

AMA with Brian Bondy

Aug 23, 2018

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

Aug 17, 2018

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

Aug 10, 2018

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

Aug 3, 2018

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

Jul 26, 2018

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

Jul 18, 2018

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...