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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.
Jul 20, 2020
Trackers are constantly working on new techniques for evading privacy tools, and keep deploying new ways to evade privacy-protecting tools like the Brave browser. This post discusses a recent technique trackers use, CNAME cloaking, and a new feature in Brave that keeps Brave users protected.
Jul 20, 2020
In order to stay one step ahead of online trackers, Brave regularly releases new privacy features and improvements. This post discusses three recent changes in Brave that each help make the web a more privacy, and person, respecting platform.
Jul 20, 2020
Brave has partnered with "Minna no Code” (Code for Everyone), an educational nonprofit organization in Japan. Our partnership is new forms of support for NPOs using the next generation Brave browser and the Brave Rewards ecosystem.
Jul 15, 2020
Gemini and Brave have partnered to make it easier for users to buy, sell, store, and earn crypto when using the Brave browser. This integration allows users to engage with crypto via the new Gemini Trading Widget.
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