Brave’s latest news

Challenger Brands Take Over Season 3 of The Brave Marketer Podcast

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.

Debouncing

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.

Brave Launches Brave Talk for Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing

Sep 22, 2021

Today, Brave launched Brave Talk, a new privacy-focused video conferencing feature built directly into the Brave browser.

Custom filter list subscriptions

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.

Research Paper: Privacy and Security Issues in Web 3.0

Sep 21, 2021

We at Brave Research just published a technical report called “Privacy and Security Issues in Web 3.0” on arXiv. This blog post summarizes our findings and puts them in perspective for Brave users.

AMA with Peter Snyder

Sep 15, 2021

The ongoing AMA series on Reddit features guests from the Brave/BAT team. The most recent AMA took place on August 18th with Peter Snyder, Senior Privacy Researcher and Director of Privacy at Brave.

Encrypting DNS Zone Transfers

Sep 14, 2021

Brave, along with a team of DNS experts from the industry and open source communities, recently helped publish an IETF standard (RFC 9103) to fix a long-standing privacy and security hole in the DNS.

Brave Rebate Program

Sep 10, 2021

In connection with the upcoming release of the new Brave Wallet, we will be launching the Brave Swap Rewards Program, a new program that will allow swap users to recoup 20% of their swap fees.

Brave Passes 36 Million Monthly Active Users

Sep 2, 2021

As users are increasingly adopting privacy-preserving tools to protect their Web usage, Brave now has 36.2 million monthly active users (MAU) and 12.5 million daily active users (DAU).

Improving privacy by improving Web compatibility

Sep 1, 2021

Brave is disabling filter list blocking for first-party subresources to improve privacy for typical Brave users. Advanced users still have the ability to deploy more aggressive privacy protections, even those that might break sites.

Brave and Gemini partner to provide an integrated custodial wallet for Brave Rewards users

Aug 31, 2021

Starting today, Brave users who opt into Brave Rewards can use the new Gemini User Wallet to custody their Basic Attention Tokens (BAT).

Grab bag 2: permission lifetimes, bounce tracking, and fingerprinting protections

Jul 21, 2021

Brave users can now choose to give sites temporary access to permission-protected capabilities to better protect their privacy. Common examples of permission-protected browser capabilities include web cameras, microphones, location information, and motion sensors, among others.

New Study by MAGNA & Brave Shows That Consumers Are More Likely to Support Brands in Ad Environments Where They Have Control

Jul 21, 2021

Study finds that three in four people find privacy protected ads and the option to control the number of ads they see daily appealing.

BAT Roadmap 2.0: Update 2

Jul 7, 2021

At Brave, we want to make crypto usable and DeFi accessible for everyone, and towards these ends, we are excited to share the second update since we published the BAT Roadmap 2.0 in February 2021.

The Brave Marketer Podcast Kicks off Season 2 with Marketing Expert from Disney+

Jun 28, 2021

Today, we’re launching the first episode of Season 2 of The Brave Marketer podcast, featuring an interview with Andrea Cutright, VP, Global Subscriber Marketing and Insights for Disney+ who discusses how they exponentially surpassed growth targets, and why “killing the hypothesis” led to massive product adoption.

Building and releasing the Brave browser to tens of millions of users

Jun 25, 2021

Our user base has grown by more than 10x these past years, recently passing 32 million monthly active users, and if you add the increasing number of platforms, channels, and architectures to the mix, then our build and release capacity had to scale 100x.

Brave Search beta now available in Brave browser, offering users the first independent privacy search/browser alternative to big tech

Jun 22, 2021

Starting today, users have a new independent option for search which gives them unmatched privacy. Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.

Using Federated Learning to Improve Brave’s On-Device Recommendations While Protecting Your Privacy

Jun 8, 2021

We propose a new privacy-first framework to solve recommendation by integrating federated learning with differential privacy. This work on private federated recommendation is only one example of how we intend to leverage federated learning with privacy on the Brave browser in the future.

Brave and Origin Collaborate on Exclusive NFT Drop in Celebration of Their Ongoing Partnership

Jun 2, 2021

Last year, Brave and Origin announced their partnership. Today, we are excited to announce our latest collaboration with Origin, TABONG: a series of six digital Brave x Origin NFT collectibles created in celebration of Brave and Origin’s partnership!

Brave Crypto DNS Strategy

May 26, 2021

Brave, as part of our mission to make crypto accessible and usable to all, is integrating several blockchain-based DNS providers. As we integrate these crypto-DNS providers, we commit to the following principles in resolving domain names…