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Blockchain MarTech Industry Grows by 1,218% in 18 months
Never Stop Marketing Research and Brave Software Collaborate to Help Enterprise Marketers Harness Blockchain Potential Rapidly New York and San Francisco, February 13, 2019 ---- Never Stop Marketing Research, the leading research firm on the intersection of blockchain...
Script Blocking Exceptions Update
We have received many questions about script blocking exceptions being reported by several news outlets and blogs. This conversation is about script loading, not tracking. Loading a script from an edge-cache does not track a user without third-party cookies or...
Brave Previews Opt-in Ads in Desktop Browser Developer Channel
New online advertising model upends current systemwith 70% revenue share to users and privacy by designToday 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...
Brave passes 5.5 million monthly active users and features over 28,000 Verified Publishers
2018 highlights include 5X MAU growth, major product redesigns, and key partnershipsAs 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...
Brave requests European Commission antitrust examination of online ad market
Investigation needed to stop anticompetitive practices that hurt publishers, restrict innovation, and limit consumer choice.
38 businesses and organizations urge European Governments to break ePrivacy deadlock
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.
French regulator shows deep flaws in IAB’s consent framework and RTB
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).
Brave calls for a “United States GDPR” in letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
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
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...
AMA with Yan Zhu
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...
Why GDPR is Kryptonite to Google & Facebook on Anti-Trust
This is Brave’s response to a call for stakeholder input from the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager.
AMA with David Temkin
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
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.
Civic to Offer Secure Identity Verification Services on the Brave Publisher Platform
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
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
Dublin, Ireland and London, United Kingdom,...
AMA with Johnny Ryan
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...
Few Realize “Private Mode” Is Not Really Private
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Passes 3 Million Monthly Active Users and Makes Top 10 List in the Play Store in 21 Countries
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
Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.
Their connection, your data.
Why should users care about privacy, and protecting their data from being collected and sold by third parties? To put it simply, your digital data trail is the evidence of your human presence online. Your data is valuable, private, and most important, it’s yours. You...
Brave’s Response to the NAA: A Better Deal for Publishers
The NAA has sent a letter to Brave Software filled with false assertions, indicating that they have fundamentally misunderstood Brave. Here are a few misconceptions we’d like to clear up: Brave is not, as the NAA asserts, “replac[ing] publishers' ads on the...
How Brave Works for You
Last week I wrote: “Brave is the only approach to the Web that puts users first in ownership and control of their browsing data by blocking trackers by default, with no exceptions.” Our premise is that the Web requires ads for much of its funding, but not the poorly...
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