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Nov 9, 2020
Effective today, November 9th, 2020, we will begin to wind-down the current referral program. Creators using the Brave referral program have 14 days to wrap up their Brave promotional activity. Creators not using the referral program will experience no change.
Nov 5, 2020
We were joined on October 7th by Luke Mulks, Director of Business Development at Brave, who spent the afternoon fielding both pre-submitted and live questions from the Community on Reddit.
Nov 2, 2020
November marks one year since we launched Brave 1.0, the most private, safest, and fastest (3-6x) browser. Over the past year, we’ve seen amazing growth on multiple fronts and we’re happy to celebrate Brave 1.0’s first anniversary by announcing that we officially passed 20 million monthly active users (20.5), up from 8.7 million this time last year.
Oct 19, 2020
Brave and Splinterlands both share a similar mission of rewarding users for their time and attention as well as increasing user privacy and freedom, and are looking forward to working together to spread those goals.
Oct 8, 2020
We launched the Referral Program in early 2018 with the intention of distributing $1 million in BAT to content creators who referred new users to Brave. Towards the end of 2018 we decided to extend the program another year. By the end of 2019 more than $2.2 million in BAT had been distributed to content creators.
Oct 7, 2020
As part of our privacy-in-Web-Standards work, we’re proud to have been involved in the design for the Global Privacy Control proposal. GPC allows Web users to signal that they do not want to be tracked online, and where relevant, assert legal privacy rights, as described in legislation like the EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA.
Oct 6, 2020
We were joined for our most recent AMA by Christopher, who is better-known in the BAT/Brave community and on Reddit as bat-chriscat, Technical Operations Coordinator at Brave.
Oct 5, 2020
Brave.com has announced its own Tor Onion Service, providing more users with secure access to Brave. Read more about it here.
Sep 23, 2020
Brave Swag Store Shoppers can now purchase official Brave merchandise from the store with Basic Attention Token (BAT) or Ether (ETH) as well as credit cards.
Sep 14, 2020
Brave Ads campaigns are now supported in 191 countries with over 2.4 billion ad confirmations to date (a 140% increase from our last report in July). To date, there have been 2,039 campaigns…
Sep 3, 2020
Introduced in April 2019, Brave Ads provide Brave's current 18M monthly active users the choice to opt-in to privacy-preserving advertising.
Aug 31, 2020
Brave Research is a highly dynamic team of researchers and developers whose goal is to push the envelope when it comes to some of the more adventurous aspects and needs of the Brave browser and the underlying ecosystem.
Aug 27, 2020
We are excited to announce that Gemini and Brave have partnered to make it easier for users to buy, sell, store, and earn crypto when using the Brave browser.
Aug 25, 2020
Google is proposing a new standard called WebBundles. This standard allows websites to “bundle” resources together, and will make it impossible for browsers to reason about sub-resources by URL. While we appreciate the problems the WebBundles and related proposals aim to solve, we believe there are other, better ways of achieving the same ends without compromising the open, transparent, user-first nature of the Web.
Aug 17, 2020
Brave Research presents THEMIS, a private-by-design ad platform that makes a significant step towards decentralizing the ad ecosystem.
Aug 13, 2020
Starting today, Brave desktop and Android users can use our fully redesigned sync functionality to sync data from desktop to desktop, as well as across desktop and Android devices.
Aug 5, 2020
Brave today announced that Dr Johnny Ryan, FRHistS, Brave’s Chief Policy and Industry Relations Officer, is departing from Brave to join the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. He will also take up a Senior Fellow position at the Open Markets Institute.
Jul 30, 2020
bitFlyer will be Brave's first partner in the crypto asset wallet space in Japan, meaning Japanese users will be able to receive and use BAT for the first time.
Jul 27, 2020
Two leaders in the data privacy movement join forces to give people – not surveillance capitalists – control over their own data.
Jul 24, 2020
This note analyses additional granular data from Dutch publisher NPO, and presents lessons for the publishing industry about privacy and revenue based on six months of data from a publishing group that removed 3rd party tracking.
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