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Guest AMA with Kindhumans

May 20, 2020

The most recent AMA took place on May 13th, and featured guests Justin “Hoost” Wilkenfeld, Suzi Wilkenfeld, and Dan I. Sack from Kindhumans, a non-profit on a mission to make kindness a viral phenomenon, and to unite and grow the community of kind humans around the world.

Brave 1.0 Performance: Methodology and Results

Jan 21, 2020

Keeping the web open to everyone with built-in privacy protections and significant efficiency gains. This blog was written by Dr. Andrius Aucinas, Dr. Matteo Varvello, performance researchers at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. In 2019,  Brave reached a major milestone with the release of the 1.0 version. As ever, web browsing performance is a key priority for Brave, so we set out to evaluate in detail how it stacks up against the competition and devised a methodology for doing so. In our “1.0 reviewer guide”, we summarized the significant savings Brave users can expect.  In the spirit of transparency, we here present our methodology and detailed results.

Privacy-Preserving Product Analytics (P3A)

Aug 22, 2019

Most of the software you use includes some sort of product analytics, or usage data collection, as does every major browser. And for good reason — knowing which features are resonating and which need work is an important part of making software that’s a pleasure to use.

AMA with Marshall Rose

Jun 20, 2019

The most recent AMA took place on June 19th and featured Marshall Rose, Principal Engineer at Brave. Marshall fielded both pre-submitted and live questions from Redditors concerning a variety of topics, such as the differences between BAT Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, the three work phases outlined in BAT Roadmap 1.0

Supporting The Web Privacy Community

Jun 13, 2019

Brave contributes to the Web privacy community in many ways, including by developing privacy tools for users and developers, sharing our research on Web privacy, and advocating for privacy in Web standards.

AMA with Jimmy Secretan

Jun 6, 2019

The latest AMA took place on June 5th and featured Jimmy Secretan, Brave’s VP of Services and Operations.

AMA with Dr. Johnny Ryan

May 31, 2019

The latest AMA took place on May 31st and featured Dr. Johnny Ryan, Brave’s Chief Policy & Industry Relations Officer.

Partner AMA with Lin Dai

May 21, 2019

The most recent AMA took place on May 20th and featured Lin Dai, CEO & Co-Founder of Hooch App and TAP Network, the first advertising and data network that connects brands to reward consumers directly using blockchain.

AMA with Des, Jan, and Brad

Apr 11, 2019

The most recent AMA took place on April 10th and featured Des Martin, Jan Piotrowski, and Brad Flora, Business Development at Brave.

AMA with Holli Bohren

Mar 28, 2019

The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is an eight-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams.

AMA with Ben Livshits

Feb 21, 2019

The most recent AMA took place on February 20th and featured Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist.

Script Blocking Exceptions Update

Feb 12, 2019

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.

AMA with Joel Reis and Sergey Zhukovsky

Jan 31, 2019

The most recent AMA took place on January 30th and featured Joel Reis, Senior Software Engineer for iOS, and Sergey Zhukovsky, Senior Software Engineer for Android at Brave.

AMA with Tom Lowenthal

Jan 17, 2019

The most recent AMA took place on January 16th and featured Tom Lowenthal, Brave’s Privacy & Security Product Manager.

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