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Welcome to the Brave blog, your front page for feature releases, privacy enhancements, company updates, info for advertisers, and more.
Nov 16, 2017
With today’s release of Brave browser 0.19.95 for the desktop, audiences can use the Brave Payments system to reward their favorite YouTube creators with Basic Attention Tokens (BAT).
Nov 9, 2017
Brave on Android recently exceeded one million downloads in the Google Play store. The app design provides easy access to Brave Shields.
Oct 20, 2017
This past weekend, a few members of our engineering team packed up and traveled to Waterloo, Ontario, to join 100 teams (over 400 developers from 32 countries) at ETHWaterloo, the world’s largest Ethereum hackathon.
Oct 12, 2017
Today we’re pleased to announce that the first phase of BAT Mercury is complete, four and half months after our token sale.
Aug 25, 2017
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Ben Livshits as Chief Scientist and David Temkin as Chief Product Officer to our 30-member staff.
Apr 25, 2017
Back-story: Brave users reported ads getting past our ad-blocking shields in previous Chromium versions, beginning with reports of ads displaying on YouTube.com on October 11, 2016.
Mar 30, 2017
Why should users care about privacy, and protecting their data from being collected and sold by third parties?
Mar 11, 2017
Today we are unpublishing Link Bubble from the Google Play Store.
Jan 17, 2017
Brave appeared on the scene last year and was quick to make a name for itself.
Sep 1, 2016
As part of our 0.11.6 release of Brave for desktop today, we are pleased to announce the beta version of Brave Payments, our Bitcoin-based micropayments system that can automatically and privately pay your favorite websites.
Apr 8, 2016
We’ve been busy at Brave building a solution designed to give users and publishers the fair deal they deserve on the Web. Today we’re releasing our 0.9 developer version.
Apr 7, 2016
The following post contains early plans for, and descriptions of, the Brave Publisher Ads program.
Mar 31, 2016
The following post contains early plans for, and descriptions of, the Brave Publisher Ads program. Publishers were expected to earn no less than 55% of ad revenue for participating in this program.
Jan 27, 2016
Our premise is that the Web requires ads for much of its funding, but not the poorly performing ads and trackers that drive users to ad-blockers.
Jan 20, 2016
The Web is always in trouble for some reason or other. I remember when Microsoft came after Netscape and threatened to lock Web standards into IE. Only the Web is so big, with such reach to billions of users, that no one owns it. This means it will always be contested ground.
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