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Welcome to the Brave blog, your front page for feature releases, privacy enhancements, company updates, info for advertisers, and more.
Jan 29, 2019
Cheddar, the leading post-cable news, media, and entertainment company, and Brave Software, an innovative privacy browser combined with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, announced today that they are partnering to provide free subscriptions to premium Cheddar content for users of the Brave browser. Brave has committed to funding hundreds of thousands of Brave users to take advantage of the premium Cheddar subscription.
Jan 28, 2019
Brave and co-complainants in Poland, Ireland, and the UK submit new evidence about massive adtech leakage of highly intimate data.
Jan 22, 2019
Big tech companies "cross-use" user data from one part of their business to prop up others. This hurts innovation & choice. The FTC must investigate. Plus, the GDPR is emerging as a defacto international standard. Whether this helps or harms United States firms will be determined by whether the United States enacts and actively enforces robust federal privacy laws.
Jan 17, 2019
The most recent AMA took place on January 16th and featured Tom Lowenthal, Brave’s Privacy & Security Product Manager.
Jan 15, 2019
Today we’re previewing our new digital advertising model in Brave’s Developer channel. Developers and testers using the latest desktop browser build for macOS and Windows can activate opt-in Brave Ads within the Brave Rewards settings in the browser.
Jan 5, 2019
As we look ahead to 2019 and our upcoming Brave 1.0 release with Brave Ads that will reward users for their attention with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), we wanted to share some of our 2018 milestones and thank our users and partners for their support during this busy year.
Dec 22, 2018
Brave Rewards is our anonymous donation system integrated directly into the Brave desktop browser.
Dec 20, 2018
Along with this update, Brave-verified publishers and creators can customize Tipping Banners for their sites, YouTube channels, or Twitch streams, in order to directly connect with the audiences that wish to seamlessly reward their content.
Dec 19, 2018
AdLedger, the non-profit research and development consortium building and implementing the blockchain standards for digital advertising, today announced that Brave Software, an innovative privacy browser combined with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, is joining the collective.
Dec 13, 2018
The most recent AMA took place on December 12th and featured Ryan Watson, IT & Operations Manager, and Kamil Jozwiak, QA Lead at Brave.
Dec 12, 2018
We are excited to announce that the latest version of Brave (1.7) for iOS is now available for download at the App Store.
Dec 7, 2018
New Chromium-based release automatically replaces previous Muon-based version with seamless migration
Dec 4, 2018
Investigation needed to stop anticompetitive practices that hurt publishers, restrict innovation, and limit consumer choice.
Dec 3, 2018
Brave and a coalition of more than 30 businesses and organizations urges European Governments to break the deadlock on the ePrivacy Regulation in an open letter.
Nov 29, 2018
The most recent AMA took place on November 28th and featured Alex Wykoff, User Research at Brave.
Nov 27, 2018
On September 26, we launched a video contest for Brave-verified online publishers and creators. Participants were asked to upload a video to YouTube in order to celebrate our recent milestone of 4 million monthly active users and explain why they’re excited about our vision and products.
Nov 26, 2018
The most recent AMA took place on November 21st and featured Luke Mulks, Director of Business Development (and ad tech expert) at Brave.
Nov 20, 2018
French regulator's decision against Vectaury confirms that IAB “Transparency & Consent Framework” does not obtain valid consent, and illustrates how even tiny adtech companies can unlawfully gather millions of people’s personal data from the online advertising “real time bidding system” (RTB).
Nov 15, 2018
The most recent AMA took place on November 14th with Brian Brown, Brave’s Chief Business Officer.
Nov 15, 2018
SpeedReader is Brave’s new approach to reader mode, the browser tool that makes web pages more pleasant and less complex to read.
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