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Feb 9, 2022
We are excited to announce the expansion of our partnership with bitFlyer for our Brave Rewards users on Android in Japan. Users will also notice major UI/UX updates on Android.
Jan 31, 2022
Crypto marketers share how they’re leveraging this exciting moment in time in a new 10-episode season of The Brave Marketer podcast.
Jan 27, 2022
Brave is excited to announce that Annie Lee has joined the company as its first Chief Marketing Officer. She was most recently at Twitch, an Amazon subsidiary.
Jan 26, 2022
The UK CMA (along with other regulators and web activists) are largely evaluating Google’s Privacy Sandbox as an isolated, independent set of features. Evaluations that fail to consider how Privacy Sandbox will interact with other upcoming Google proposals will miss how radical and harmful Privacy Sandbox will be to the Web in practice. This piece presents how Privacy Sandbox, when considered with other upcoming Chrome features, will harm user choice, privacy, and competition on the Web.
Jan 25, 2022
The Topics API does not address the core harmfulness of FLoC: that it’s arrogant and dangerous for Google to be the arbiter of what users consider “sensitive” data.
Jan 18, 2022
2021 was a significant year for the growth and development of Brave and BAT. Brave grew over 2x to 50.2 million monthly active users in 2021, with over 8 million users earning BAT through Brave Rewards, becoming the 11th most distributed token by on-chain holders according to etherscan.io.
Jan 12, 2022
A unique collaboration that led to a novel on-chain transaction to purchase paid advertising space by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)
Jan 7, 2022
Brave continues to ship the most aggressive and broad privacy protections available in any popular browser. Starting in Brave 1.35, Brave includes protections against all known practical forms of “pool-party” attacks.
Jan 5, 2022
For the fifth year in a row, we’ve doubled the number of our monthly active users, going from 24 million MAU on December 31st, 2020, to over 50 million by the end of 2021.
Dec 22, 2021
Brave now includes network-state partitioning features, protecting Brave users from an even greater range of online tracking techniques.
Dec 16, 2021
Brave Wallet is now available in beta release for Brave mobile, enabling users to store, manage, grow, and swap their crypto portfolio from a crypto wallet built into the Brave mobile browser.
Dec 15, 2021
Brave has identified a new category of tracking vulnerability, forms of which are present in all browsers. We call this category of attack “pool-party” attacks because the attack uses collections (or “pools”) of limited-but-shared resources to create side channels.
Nov 18, 2021
Brave is pleased to announce SugarCoat, the result of a year-long research collaboration with University of California San Diego to create a new system to improve Web privacy without sacrificing compatibility at Web scale.
Nov 16, 2021
Today, we launch the Brave Wallet, a native wallet built into the browser, enabling users to store, manage, grow, and swap crypto from within Brave.
Nov 8, 2021
Brave will integrate the Solana blockchain, providing default Solana ecosystem support to Brave's 42 million MAUs and 1.3 million verified Creators.
Oct 19, 2021
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.
Oct 18, 2021
Marketers from challenger brands unveil the strategies and tactics behind the risks they’ve taken in a new 10-episode season of The Brave Marketer Podcast.
Oct 14, 2021
Brave is releasing additional protections against certain forms of bounce tracking. We call these new protections "debouncing". As of desktop version 1.32, Brave will protect users against bounce tracking by recognizing when the user is about to visit a known tracking domain, skipping visiting the tracking site all together, and instead directly navigating the user to the intended destination.
Sep 22, 2021
Today, Brave launched Brave Talk, a new privacy-focused video conferencing feature built directly into the Brave browser.
Sep 21, 2021
Starting in version 1.31, Brave will support custom filter list subscriptions, allowing users to further control how unwanted network requests and in-page elements are blocked in Brave. This work is part of Brave’s goal of providing best-of-breed content filtering tools, and keeping people in control of their Web browsing.
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