Brave Expands Advertising Platform to Mobile Devices and Launches Brave Ads Certified Vendor Program
Jul 11, 2019
Privacy-preserving Brave Ads now available on Brave Android browser, rewarding users with BAT
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Welcome to the Brave blog, your front page for feature releases, privacy enhancements, company updates, info for advertisers, and more.
Guest AMA with Taylor Monahan & Jordan Spence of MyCrypto
Jun 27, 2019
The most recent AMA took place on June 25th, and featured guests Taylor Monahan (Founder and CEO) and Jordan Spence (CMO) of MyCrypto.
A summary of the ICO report on RTB – and what happens next
Jun 26, 2019
This note summarizes the ICO report on real-time bidding, which vindicates the GDPR complaints initiated by Brave, and points toward the solution.
Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance by 69x with New Engine Implementation in Rust
Jun 26, 2019
Brave Shields, which protect users’ privacy from trackers and ads, are one of the cornerstone components of the browser involved in handling every single web request made for loading a website.
Adding YubiKey Support to Brave for iOS
Jun 24, 2019
We’re excited to partner with Yubico to bring YubiKey support to Brave for iOS.
AMA with Marshall Rose
Jun 20, 2019
The most recent AMA took place on June 19th and featured Marshall Rose, Principal Engineer at Brave. Marshall fielded both pre-submitted and live questions from Redditors concerning a variety of topics, such as the differences between BAT Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, the three work phases outlined in BAT Roadmap 1.0
Major publisher group DCN tells regulators “the sky won’t fall” if RTB switches to safe, non-personal data.
Jun 19, 2019
DCN's CEO, Jason Kint, says removing personal data from bid requests might disadvantage adtech companies, but the sky won’t fall for publishers.
Brave answers US Senators questions on privacy and antitrust
Jun 17, 2019
Brave has responded to questions for the record from the US Senate Judiciary Committee from Senators Whitehouse, Booker, Graham and Leahy.
Guest AMA with Daniel Gouldman and Ian Kane of Ternio
Jun 14, 2019
The latest AMA took place on June 12th and featured Daniel Gouldman (CEO), and Ian Kane (COO), Founders and Co-owners of Ternio, one of Brave’s advertising partners for Brave Ads.
Supporting The Web Privacy Community
Jun 13, 2019
Brave contributes to the Web privacy community in many ways, including by developing privacy tools for users and developers, sharing our research on Web privacy, and advocating for privacy in Web standards.
AMA with Jimmy Secretan
Jun 6, 2019
The latest AMA took place on June 5th and featured Jimmy Secretan, Brave’s VP of Services and Operations.
AMA with Dr. Johnny Ryan
May 31, 2019
The latest AMA took place on May 31st and featured Dr. Johnny Ryan, Brave’s Chief Policy & Industry Relations Officer.
Requirement Analysis of Decentralized Virtual Private Networks (dVPNs)
May 23, 2019
In this blogpost we explore the ecosystem of decentralized Virtual Private Networks (dVPNs), a new form of VPNs with no central authority. DVPNs are fairly recent VPN solutions where the users are both client and server, in the sense that when they join a dVPN they also offer a portion of their upload bandwidth to carry traffic for other users.
Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority for “suspected infringement” of the GDPR, following formal complaint from Brave
May 22, 2019
Today, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a major GDPR probe into “suspected infringement” by Google’s DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers advertising business. The probe was triggered by a formal complaint from Dr Johnny Ryan, Chief Policy Officer at Brave, the private web browser.
Dr Johnny Ryan’s testimony at the US Senate Judiciary Committee
May 21, 2019
Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave testified today at the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Understanding the Digital Advertising Ecosystem and the Impact of Data Privacy and Competition Policy”.
Partner AMA with Lin Dai
May 21, 2019
The most recent AMA took place on May 20th and featured Lin Dai, CEO & Co-Founder of Hooch App and TAP Network, the first advertising and data network that connects brands to reward consumers directly using blockchain.
Ad Tech GDPR complaint is extended to four more European regulators
May 20, 2019
GDPR complaints about Real-Time Bidding (RTB) in the online advertising industry were filed today with Data Protection Authorities in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The complaints detail the vast scale of personal data leakage by Google and other major companies in the “Ad Tech” industry. This week marks one year since the introduction of the GDPR.
Brave's Concerns with the Client-Hints Proposal
May 9, 2019
One of Brave’s main goals is to improve privacy on the Web, so that everyone can enjoy and interact with the Web while protecting their personal information. This post discusses a new proposed Web standard, Client Hints, and why Brave is concerned that it harms Web privacy.
Brave Launches the First Advertising Platform Built on Privacy
Apr 24, 2019
Starting today, users of Brave’s latest release of the desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux can choose to view privacy-preserving Brave Ads by opting into Brave Rewards. These users will receive 70% of the ad revenue share as a reward for their attention, which they can auto-contribute to publishers under default settings.
Brave Rewards on Android
Apr 17, 2019
Brave Rewards is now available in the latest version of Brave for Android (1.0.91). To download it on your device, please visit the Google Play Store.
