Google and IAB's inadequate proposals to reform RTB
Jan 21, 2020
This note highlights the inadequacies of Google and IAB proposals to reform RTB, and rebuts the argument for inaction.
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| RSSThe ICO's failure to act on RTB, the largest data breach ever recorded in the UK
Jan 17, 2020
The ICO has today announced that it will be taking no substantive action to fix "RTB", the largest data breach ever recorded in the UK. Regulatory ambivalence cannot continue. We are considering all options to put an end to the systemic breach, including direct challenges to the controllers and judicial oversight of the ICO.
Read this articleIntroducing Sponsored Images in Brave
Jan 15, 2020
Today we’d like to introduce “Sponsored Images”, the latest addition to Brave’s private advertising platform. These branded images will appear in the form of large, beautiful background images within our new tab page. Sponsored Images will bring additional revenue to support Brave’s mission, and give users a new reason to turn on Brave Rewards so they can get compensated for their attention. These images will begin to appear across our mobile and desktop browsers over the next few months. As always with Brave, Sponsored Images are private.
Read this articleBrave selected as the official browser for the 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship (Soccer tournament) in South Korea
Dec 9, 2019
Brave browser was selected as the official browser for the 2019 E-1 Football/Soccer Championship, hosted by the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) in South Korea from December 10th to 18th.
Read this articleBrave 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. This represents a doubling of Brave's MAU in one year. Daily active users tripled this year, to 3.3 million. The Brave browser combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, and offers 3-6x faster browsing than other browsers.
Read this articleBrave Launches Next-Generation Browser that Puts Users in Charge of Their Internet Experience with Unmatched Privacy and Rewards
Nov 13, 2019
San Francisco – November 13, 2019 – Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact online by giving users a private, safer, and 3-6x faster browsing experience, while funding the Web through a new attention-based platform of privacy-preserving advertisements and rewards. In addition to desktop and Android devices, Brave's private ads and payment platform (Brave Rewards) is now available for iPhones and iPads.
Read this articleBrave 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. Whether due to recent data privacy investigations, high-profile breaches, or emerging government regulations, online privacy is a rising concern for users across the nation. According to a new survey of 1,500 U.S. web users conducted by Brave Software, 76 percent of users feel more concerned with protecting their online privacy than they did one year ago, and 88 percent wish they had more control over how large companies like Google and Facebook use their personal data. It’s time for a change.
Read this articleBrave 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 has recently written to the U.S Senate and Congress about foreign state actors using targeted ads to run code on US government computers
Read this articleThe 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.
Read this articleRyan’s testimony at International Grand Chamber: RTB data breach enables disinformation. Enforcers can be sued.
Nov 11, 2019
Ryan's tells leaders from ten parliaments: the RTB data breach enables disinformation. Enforcers can be sued.
Read this articleBrave, Fingerprinting, and Privacy Budgets
Nov 6, 2019
This post first summarizes what browser fingerprinting is, and common defenses. Second, the post presents problems with “dynamic privacy approaches”, and why Brave is skeptical they are effective for protecting against fingerprinting. Third, the post presents Brave’s fingerprinting protections, current, upcoming and longer-term.
Read this articleIn Partnership with The Giving Block, Brave Selects The Tor Project as the Latest Grant Recipient of Brave Ads
Nov 4, 2019
In Partnership with The Giving Block, Brave Selects The Tor Project as the Latest Grant Recipient of Brave Ads
Read this articleEveripedia 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 digital advertising platform, today announced a co-marketing agreement. The partnership will initially result in a campaign aimed at boosting both brands among their respective communities and is the first step towards a deeper collaboration.
Read this articleBrave input to California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)
Oct 29, 2019
Privacy laws need to be overhauled, which is why Brave is asking Californians to support its California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and help change the internet.
Read this articleAccurately Predicting Ad Blocker Savings
Oct 21, 2019
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.
Read this articleBrave reaches 8 million monthly active users and delivers nearly 400 privacy-preserving ad campaigns
Oct 16, 2019
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 Verified Publishers.
Read this articleBrave 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.
Read this articleBrave 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.
Read this articleCompetition 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.
Read this articlezkSENSE: 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 valuable feedback of Prof. Alastair R. Beresford of the University of Cambridge. Bots are automated programs that often mimic human behavior for monetary or criminal purposes. They have become a serious and pervasive problem for many industries, especially for the online advertising market. In 2013, it was discovered that the Chameleon botnet harvested around 6 million dollars per month from advertisers. The proliferation and the wide variety of mobile devices created opportunities for fraudsters to gain profit by abusing the ad ecosystem and exploiting low-cost mobile devices. In particular, recent news has reported that phone farmers have been using bots to automate phone clicks and touch movements to generate revenue from ad views.
Read this articleBrave 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 fiat currencies, after completing a verification process with digital money platform Uphold. Previously, the Brave browser wallet was unidirectional, and its sole purpose was to anonymously and securely contribute to online publishers of the user’s choosing.
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