When privacy-preserving advertising measurement falls short
Sep 19, 2024
Privacy-preserving ad measurement should prioritize user control and transparency rather than catering to third-party advertisers.
Nebula: Brave's differentially private system for privacy-preserving analytics
Sep 18, 2024
Introducing Nebula, a novel and best-in-class system developed by Brave Research for product usage analytics with differential privacy guarantees.
Chrome is Entrenching Third-Party Cookies For Some Sites In A Way That Will Predictably, Inevitably Mislead Users
Aug 26, 2024
Related Website Sets is a user-hostile weakening of the Web's privacy model, plainly designed to benefit websites and advertisers, to the detriment of user privacy.
BLaDE: Brave's Performance Evaluation Testbed
Aug 14, 2024
Introducing BLaDE: Brave's open-source testbed for automated mobile performance evaluation. This system accurately measures device metrics while simulating user actions, enhancing mobile app assessment.
Brave Research and academic collaborators design a new framework to guarantee that machine learning models were trained privately
Feb 26, 2024
We introduce verifiable private training which enhances training with a certificate of privacy while not revealing any information about the data and model.
Brave Wallet: Safer Signing for Sign-In With Ethereum and CoW Swap
Nov 10, 2023
Version 1.60 includes enhanced Sign-In with Ethereum, and CoW Swap support. Plus, improved parsing, signing, and UX for a safer, smoother user experience!
Verifiably Private Computation
Feb 13, 2023
An overview of how Brave is able to process sensitive data without actually seeing the data, while also empowering users to verify our claims.
Privacy by Design: Published Proxy Config
Jan 27, 2023
How we publish cloud service configuration data so users can verify we can’t track them.
Towards a safer signing experience on Brave Wallet
Oct 26, 2022
Signing DApp transactions for EVM chains is a security nightmare. We are excited to debut a smarter signing experience on Brave Swap for all EVM transactions.
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.
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.
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.
THEMIS RFC&C Wrap Up
May 26, 2021
We received 10 RFC&C proposals from teams focusing on both L1 and L2 tech that brought practical insights on how to improve the original THEMISv2 protocol spec. In this blogpost, we’ll dive into each of the received proposals and provide pointers for the material each team submitted for the RFC&C.
AMA with Ben Livshits and Gonçalo Pestana
Mar 25, 2021
Ben Livshits (Chief Scientist) and Gonçalo Pestana (Sr. Research Engineer) from Brave participated in the latest Ask Me Anything on r/BATProject.
THEMIS RFC&C: Update #2
Mar 9, 2021
The THEMIS RFC&C event, which started early February, has brought independent researchers and over 10 companies together with the Brave research team to comment and propose directions for the future of the Brave Ads protocol.
AMA with Brave and IPFS
Feb 8, 2021
The ongoing AMA series is an opportunity for our users and fans to get to know the Brave team, and, as of recently, guests from Brave’s partners.
THEMIS RFC&C Update
Feb 8, 2021
A month ago we announced an RFC&C for the THEMIS protocol which is meant to progressively decentralize the Brave/BAT Ads infrastructure, while providing users and advertisers with the ability to verify that the protocol is properly computing user rewards.
Brave Private Content Delivery Network
Dec 10, 2020
Brave is a company where privacy isn’t just a feature; it’s a requirement. This is perhaps most obvious in the Brave Browser, where we block trackers, prevent fingerprinting, and include a privacy-preserving, opt-in and user-first ad-system, but Brave’s focus on privacy goes far beyond the browser.
How we Choose and Rank Content in Brave News
Dec 10, 2020
We’re using Brave’s new private CDN to fetch RSS feeds anonymously and the browser’s personalization capabilities to rank headlines with a simple algorithm that will make the experience interesting for everyone.
AMA with Brian Clifton
Nov 19, 2020
In our recent AMA we were joined by Brian Clifton, VP of Engineering at Brave, who spent the afternoon fielding both pre-submitted and live questions from the Community on Reddit.
