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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Oct 2, 2019
This research presents VPN⁰, the first distributed virtual private network offering a privacy preserving traffic authorization and validation mechanism.
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Sep 24, 2019
This note examines the GDPR requirement that marketers conduct data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) when buying digital media using "real-time bidding" advertising.
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Sep 18, 2019
What this post explores today is how browsers behave by default, on their first-run, with no preexisting user profile. By default, Brave blocks third-party trackers (and the ads that rely on them). It also prevents fingerprinting, auto-play of media, crypto-mining, and access to media input devices.
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Sep 4, 2019
Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.
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Aug 28, 2019
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has joined the Brave platform as a Verified Publisher. Created in 2001, Wikipedia is edited and verified by volunteers around the world.
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Aug 22, 2019
Most of the software you use includes some sort of product analytics, or usage data collection, as does every major browser. And for good reason — knowing which features are resonating and which need work is an important part of making software that’s a pleasure to use.
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Aug 20, 2019
Earlier this summer, Brave and Yubico announced a partnership to bring YubiKey support to Brave for iOS. Yubico is the leading provider of hardware security keys which use the U2F and WebAuthn protocols to provide secure phishing-resistant authentication for online logins
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Aug 13, 2019
Dr Johnny Ryan responds to IAB Europe. Four months on, both I and the Data Protection Commission are still waiting for the first explanation of how "IAB Europe is confident that the way it obtains consent for the use of cookies on its website complies with the requirements of the law".
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Aug 9, 2019
Formal GDPR complaint against IAB Europe’s “cookie wall” and GDPR consent guidance.
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Aug 4, 2019
We are proud to announce that Luke Mulks, director of business development at Brave, was recognized as one of the top 40 game-changers impacting the marketing and advertising industry for the 2019 DMN 40under40 Awards.
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Aug 1, 2019
Tip Your Favorite X (formerly Twitter) Creators with Brave
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Jul 22, 2019
The most recent AMA took place on July 17th, and featured guests Alex Wilson and Patrick Duffy, Co-founders of The Giving Block.
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Jul 11, 2019
Privacy-preserving Brave Ads now available on Brave Android browser, rewarding users with BAT
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jun 24, 2019
We're excited to partner with Yubico to bring YubiKey support to Brave for iOS.
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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
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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.
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Jun 17, 2019
Brave has responded to questions for the record from the US Senate Judiciary Committee from Senators Whitehouse, Booker, Graham and Leahy.
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