Industry discussion on the GDPR at 2 years old, and future EU regulatory development
May 20, 2020
Senior representatives of advertisers, publishers, and intermediaries discuss two years of the the GDPR in a discussion hosted by Brave.
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Fingerprinting defenses 2.0
May 18, 2020
Brave's goal is to both be the best browser for protecting your privacy, and the best browser for day-to-day, full-featured Web use. This post describes new privacy features being developed in Brave to better protect user privacy, without breaking privacy-respecting, user-serving websites.
Mjolnir: Tooling for BAT Apollo
May 11, 2020
Mjolnir is a tool for easily deploying and benchmarking Permissioned Ethereum Blockchain implementations.
Brave Launches Ad and Rewards Campaigns to Support Non-Profit Organizations Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic
May 7, 2020
Brave is offering organizations like Khan Academy, No Kid Hungry, GetUsPPE and others free space to advertise and fundraise for their COVID-19 relief funds.
Binance widget now available to all Brave desktop browser users, enabling seamless cryptocurrency trading and management
Apr 30, 2020
Today’s Brave desktop browser update features the Binance widget, the first exchange-browser integration of its kind.
New data on GDPR enforcement agencies reveal why the GDPR is failing
Apr 27, 2020
New data from Brave reveals that European governments have not equipped their national authorities to enforce the GDPR. Brave has called on the European Commission to launch an infringement procedure against 27 European governments.
Browser First-Run: iOS Edition
Apr 24, 2020
Last year I did a review of several popular desktop browsers, focusing exclusively on what they do when you launch the browser for the first time. Today I decided to take a look at various browsers available on iOS 13…
Guest AMA with Matthew Liu & Nick Poulden of Origin
Apr 20, 2020
The most recent AMA took place on April 16th, and featured guests Matthew Liu (Co-founder) and Nick Poulden (Senior Engineer) at Origin.
New fully rebuilt Brave for Android boosts performance across the board compared to prior versions: 5% battery savings along with 3% of both data and CPU savings
Apr 6, 2020
New fully rebuilt Brave for Android boosts performance across the board compared to prior versions: 5% battery savings along with 3% of both data and CPU savings
Brave Launches New Swag Store Powered by Origin
Apr 2, 2020
Brave unveils new Brave Swag Store, the official source for Brave and Basic Attention Token-branded merchandise. Powered by Origin Protocol’s new decentralized e-commerce platform, Dshop.
Brave and Binance Partner to Bring Cryptocurrency Trading Directly Into the Browser
Mar 24, 2020
Binance widget integrated into the Brave browser puts cryptocurrency management and trading at users’ fingertips in first exchange-browser integration of its kind
Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all
Mar 16, 2020
Brave filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business.
Brave and TAP Network Partnership Connects Consumers and Brands via Blockchain
Mar 10, 2020
Two Blockchain Pioneers Join Forces to Reward Users for Attention and Help Brands Reach New Audiences Through Private Ads
Fingerprint randomization
Mar 5, 2020
Brave now protects users from being fingerprinted by making them appear subtly different to each website. Browser fingerprinting protection is available today in our Nightly version. These new protections both provide the strongest fingerprinting protections of any popular browser, and work without introducing bothersome permission prompts or breaking websites.
Third-party cosmetic filtering
Feb 20, 2020
Brave is releasing a new system for hiding unwanted, privacy harming page elements. These include empty page space caused by blocking trackers, and third-party ads that cannot be blocked at the network layer.
Failure to enforce the GDPR enables Google’s monopoly
Feb 18, 2020
Brave’s submission to the UK Competition & Markets Authority shows how to fix the RTB market and end Google’s advertising monopoly.
Sponsored Images now available on all Brave platforms, rewarding users who opt into Brave Rewards with 70 percent of the ad revenue
Feb 12, 2020
Brave users will notice that their new tab page features a Sponsored Image, which is shown in every fourth new tab and alternates with Brave’s regular background images for new tabs.
OK Google, don’t delay real browser privacy until 2022
Feb 6, 2020
Google recently announced that their Chrome Web browser will — with luck, and if a bunch of other conditions come to pass — probably start blocking third-party cookies.
Brave uncovers widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites
Feb 4, 2020
Brave has uncovered widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites. "Surveillance on UK council websites", a new report from Brave, reveals the extent of private companies’ surveillance of UK citizens when they seeking help for addiction, disability, and poverty from their local government authorities.
Web resource replacements
Jan 23, 2020
Problem: Blocking Trackers Sometimes Breaks Sites. One of many ways Brave protects your privacy on the Web is by blocking requests to trackers. By blocking these requests, Brave prevents you from being followed around the Web, and from ad companies, data brokers, and other privacy-harming parties from recording your online activity.
