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Welcome to the Brave blog. You’ve reached the front page for news on ad blocking, features, performance, privacy and Basic Attention Token related announcements.

French regulator shows deep flaws in IAB’s consent framework and RTB

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).

SpeedReader: Fast and Private Reader Mode for the Web

Nov 15, 2018

This post is an abbreviated version of this report, based on research conducted at Brave by Andrius Aucinas (Performance Researcher), Peter Snyder (Privacy Researcher), and Dr. Ben Livshits (Chief Scientist), as well as by Mohammad Ghasemisharif (Ph.D student in...

AMA with Brian Brown

Nov 15, 2018

Welcome to the seventh post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity...

Brave calls for a “United States GDPR” in letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Nov 6, 2018

Brave presents the case for a US federal privacy law that builds on the GDPR, protecting innovation, interoperability, and supporting US leadership.

AMA with Sampson

Nov 1, 2018

Welcome to the sixth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a seven-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

Brave Sponsors Cal Hacks 5.0, the World’s Largest Collegiate Hackathon

Oct 31, 2018

Prizes Available for Participants who Create a Brave Browser Extension From November 2-4, 2018, Brave will be at U.C. Berkeley’s California Memorial Stadium as one of Cal Hacks’ sponsors, alongside leading technology companies. Brave is helping to connect 2,000...

AMA with Yan Zhu

Oct 19, 2018

Welcome to the fifth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

New Brave Browser Release Available for General Download on Brave.com

Oct 18, 2018

Redesigned Chromium-based desktop version replaces previous Muon-based browser and delivers 22% faster load time Starting today, users who download a new version of the Brave desktop browser from the Brave website will be presented with Brave’s latest browser release,...

The New Brave is 22% Faster

Oct 18, 2018

Newly Redesigned Chromium-Based Brave Browser Has 22% Faster Load Time than Brave Muon Version, on Average This research was conducted by Andrius Aucinas, performance researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. Back in March we announced the...

Why GDPR is Kryptonite to Google & Facebook on Anti-Trust

Oct 10, 2018

This is Brave’s response to a call for stakeholder input from the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager.

AMA with David Temkin

Oct 5, 2018

Welcome to the fourth post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to...

Brendan Eich writes to the US Senate: we need a GDPR for the United States

Oct 1, 2018

A ruling of the European Court of Justice this month in the “Facebook fan page case” exposes marketers to severe legal risk from programmatic advertising.

Beta Release of Redesigned Brave Desktop Browser is Available Today for Download and Testing

Sep 27, 2018

Today we’re releasing the first beta version of our upcoming Brave 1.0 browser for testing on our new Brave Beta Channel. This beta is a work in progress for developers and users who would like to see our latest advances. On September 6th, we released the first...

Brave Launches 100K BAT “Best of the Brave” Video Contest for Online Creators and Publishers

Sep 26, 2018

Brave recently passed the 4 million bar of monthly active users (MAU), and has over 21,000 Verified Publishers. We’re celebrating this MAU milestone by inviting our community of creators and publishers to produce a short video about it, as well as why they’re excited...

Civic to Offer Secure Identity Verification Services on the Brave Publisher Platform

Sep 21, 2018

Brave-verified Publishers with Civic Reusable KYC will be able to collect earned BATs with their own Ethereum wallets Civic, the global digital identity leader, and Brave, an innovative privacy browser combined with a blockchain-based digital advertising...

Fast and Private Brave Browser Chooses Qwant as its Default Search Engine in France and Germany

Sep 13, 2018

PARIS, France, and SAN FRANCISCO, USA -- September 13th, 2018 - Brave, which combines an innovative privacy browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, and Qwant, the European search engine that respects the privacy of its users, announced...

Regulatory complaint concerning massive, web-wide data breach by Google and other “ad tech” companies under Europe’s GDPR

Sep 12, 2018

Dublin, Ireland and London, United Kingdom,...

AMA with Johnny Ryan

Sep 6, 2018

Welcome to the third post in our series of BAT Community-run AMAs. The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is a six-month long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series, which will run until January 2019, is twofold: to give fans...

Critical data protection problems in the IAB’s new OpenRTB 3.0 Spec

Sep 4, 2018

A ruling of the European Court of Justice this month in the “Facebook fan page case” exposes marketers to severe legal risk from programmatic advertising.

Few Realize “Private Mode” Is Not Really Private

Aug 29, 2018

This ongoing research is being conducted by Ruba Abu-Salma, a Ph.D student in Computer Science from University College London (UCL), and Brave’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Ben Livshits. The final findings will be submitted as a paper in the next several weeks....

AMA with Brian Bondy

Aug 23, 2018

On August 16th, the BAT Community successfully kicked off an AMA (Ask Me Anything!) series with CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich. The series, scheduled to run from August 2018 through January 2019, features several different guests from the Brave team every month and...

AMA with Brendan Eich

Aug 17, 2018

On August 16th, BAT Community hosted the first in an upcoming series of AMAs (Ask Me Anything!) with Brendan Eich in the r/BATProject subreddit. Over the course of the AMA, Brendan answered a mix of pre-submitted and live questions from Redditors about Brave and the...

Understanding Redirection-Based Tracking

Aug 10, 2018

This blog post describes ongoing work conducted at Brave by Peter Snyder and Ben Livshits. It is the third in a series of research-oriented posts that share both present investigations and future vision. We are constantly looking to improve and automate the privacy...

Brave Browser iOS App Now Offers DuckDuckGo Search in Private Tabs

Aug 3, 2018

We recently partnered with DuckDuckGo to improve privacy on the web by integrating a new DuckDuckGo search feature within Private Tabs in Brave’s desktop browser. We’re excited to announce that this feature is now available to Brave iOS (version 1.6.3) users to give...

Into the Blockchain: Brave with MetaMask

Jul 26, 2018

The decentralized web is there for exploring. Trails are being blazed with decentralized applications built on the Ethereum blockchain, with the MetaMask extension providing a bridge to explore and handle decentralized applications (Dapps) from a web browser....

The Mounting Cost of Stale Ad Blocking Rules

Jul 18, 2018

This blog post describes ongoing work conducted at Brave by Antoine Vastel, Peter Snyder, and Ben Livshits. It is the second in a series of research-oriented posts that share both present investigations and future vision. We are constantly looking to improve and...

Brave Writes to All 28 EU Member States, Defending ePrivacy Regulation’s “Privacy By Design and By Default”

Jul 16, 2018

A ruling of the European Court of Justice this month in the “Facebook fan page case” exposes marketers to severe legal risk from programmatic advertising.

Europe’s top court signals new risk for marketers from ad tech

Jul 15, 2018

A ruling of the European Court of Justice this month in the “Facebook fan page case” exposes marketers to severe legal risk from programmatic advertising.

Brave Passes 3 Million Monthly Active Users and Makes Top 10 List in the Play Store in 21 Countries

Jul 12, 2018

Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.

Brave Introduces Beta of Private Tabs with Tor for Enhanced Privacy while Browsing

Jun 28, 2018

Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.

Brave Welcomes Dr. Johnny Ryan to its Leadership Team as Chief Policy and Industry Relations Officer

Jun 20, 2018

Brave is pleased to announce that Dr. Johnny Ryan is joining the company as Chief Policy & Industry Relations Officer.

Brave Launches User Trials for Opt-In Ads That Reward Viewers

Jun 19, 2018

We’ve been busy building our new Basic Attention Token (BAT) platform, which includes a new consent-based digital advertising model that benefits users, publishers, and advertisers.

Brave Users Get Rewarded to Browse

Jun 6, 2018

Brave launches $500,000 BAT giveaway per month for browser users, alongside monthly payments to Brave Publishers.

Brave Proposes a Machine Learning Approach for Ad Blocking

May 25, 2018

This week, Brave unveiled new research that is under submission to an upcoming conference regarding how to improve and automate ad blocking with AdGraph, a graph-based machine learning approach for detecting ads and trackers on a given web page.

New Brave Version Features Tab Improvements for Enhanced Performance

May 16, 2018

Today we released a new desktop version of Brave (0.22.714) which features significant performance improvements for users who typically use many tabs and windows.

Global Brave News — Brave Officially Opens London Office and Presents in Singapore and Korea

May 11, 2018

Last week, Brave gave multiple presentations in a flash tour across Asia and signed a lease for new space for its London office.

Brave and Townsquare Partner to Monetize Ad-blocking Traffic and Test Blockchain-based Digital Advertising

May 3, 2018

Brave, which is combining an innovative privacy browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, and Townsquare Media, Inc., which owns and…

Brave Update: Partners, Creators, Users, and Growth – April 2018

Apr 27, 2018

Brave is excited to announce partnerships with Bart Baker and Philip DeFranco as we continue our mission of providing a better deal for online creators.

Dow Jones Media Group Partners With Brave Software To Offer Premium Content To Users and Test Blockchain-Based Payment Technology

Apr 18, 2018

Privacy web browser Brave Software and Dow Jones Media Group have announced a partnership aimed at bringing premium content to new audiences and testing blockchain technology usage in digital publishing.

Brave Distributes Million Dollar Referral Program to Content Creators

Apr 12, 2018

Brave Unveils Development Plans for Upcoming 1.0 Browser Release, Including Transition to Chromium Front-End

Mar 28, 2018

The Brave 1.0 browser for desktop operating systems is coming later this year and it will include several significant improvements that we’d like to share now.

Million Dollar BAT Giveaway to Brave Users Now Paid Out to Rewarded Content Creators

Mar 24, 2018

In January, we announced that we’d distribute $1 million worth of promotional BAT (Basic Attention Token) via user grants to Brave desktop browser wallets — ultimately to be contributed to website publishers and YouTube creators via Brave Payments.

Twitch Support

Mar 1, 2018

Today we’re announcing that Twitch streamers can earn revenue in connection with the Brave browser. As part of our commitment to Twitch, we have added up to an additional $1 million to our referral program for creators.

Let’s Encrypt Sponsorship

Feb 27, 2018

Why Supporting Let’s Encrypt Matters… …and Why Brave Integrates HTTPS Upgrades Today Brave is proud to announce its corporate sponsorship of Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA). Let’s Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet...

Brave Launches Million Dollar Referral Program Supporting Publishers And YouTube Creators With Crypto-Tokens

Feb 15, 2018

Creators Earn Approximately 5 USD Worth of Promotional BAT for Each Active User They Bring to the Brave Browser Brave Software, which is combining an innovative browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, announced today that it is launching an up...

Multi-property Support Now Live for Brave-verified Creators

Feb 1, 2018

As part of our effort to make the Basic Attention Token platform even more efficient and easy to use for our thousands of verified sites and content creators, we recently upgraded our Publishers website to allow a single publisher account to manage multiple properties.

New Brave Release Available For Desktop Users With Across-the-board Improvements And Updates

Jan 31, 2018

Today we’re releasing a desktop browser update with highly-awaited features and performance improvements, as well as multiple fixes for issues reported by our user community.

Brave-verified Publishers Double in One Week with Ongoing $1 Million Crypto-token Giveaway

Jan 24, 2018

Update: All of the tokens in this giveaway have been claimed. We’ll have more in the future, so please check back in later. Less Than 50% of Promotional BAT Remain; 6,000 YouTube Channels (With Over 100 Million Subscribers) Have Joined the Platform We’re...

Brave Announces $1 Million Crypto-Token Giveaway

Jan 17, 2018

Update: All of the tokens in this giveaway have been allocated and/or claimed. Please check back in later for more promotions. Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our $1M BAT giveaway so our users can support their favorite sites and content...

Update: Brave Browser and BAT Achievements in 2017 and Goals for 2018

Jan 12, 2018

We would like to take a moment to thank all of our users and supporters for an amazing 2017, and we look forward to welcoming what is sure to be an exciting 2018. As such, we thought it appropriate to share some of what we achieved together in the past year and what...