Significant Battery Savings with Brave on Mobile: Brave Consumes 40% Less Battery than Other Leading Browsers
Feb 27, 2019
Brave mobile users can expect up to two and a half extra hours of browsing per battery charge.
New evidence to regulators: IAB documents reveal that it knew that real-time bidding would be “incompatible with consent under GDPR”.
Feb 20, 2019
New evidence to regulators: IAB documents reveal that it knew that real-time bidding would be “incompatible with consent under GDPR”.
Memory Savings in Brave: 33% to 66% memory reduction over Chrome
Feb 15, 2019
In this post we demonstrate that Brave’s privacy benefits from ad-blocking go hand-in-hand with performance improvements. Specifically, a well-implemented ad blocker can deliver 33% to 66% memory savings or 500 MB to as much as 1.9 GB across just 10 pages open in a single session.
Update on GDPR complaint (RTB ad auctions)
Jan 28, 2019
Brave and co-complainants in Poland, Ireland, and the UK submit new evidence about massive adtech leakage of highly intimate data.
Brave alerts the FTC about two major problems in digital media & services markets
Jan 22, 2019
Big tech companies "cross-use" user data from one part of their business to prop up others. This hurts innovation & choice. The FTC must investigate. Plus, the GDPR is emerging as a defacto international standard. Whether this helps or harms United States firms will be determined by whether the United States enacts and actively enforces robust federal privacy laws.
Brave requests European Commission antitrust examination of online ad market
Dec 4, 2018
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
Dec 3, 2018
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
Nov 20, 2018
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
Nov 6, 2018
Brave presents the case for a US federal privacy law that builds on the GDPR, protecting innovation, interoperability, and supporting US leadership.
The New Brave is 22% Faster
Oct 18, 2018
Newly Redesigned Chromium-Based Brave Browser Has 22% Faster Load Time than Brave Muon Version, on Average
Why GDPR is Kryptonite to Google & Facebook on Anti-Trust
Oct 10, 2018
Brave's submission to Margrethe Vestager, the EU Anti-Trust Chief.
Brendan Eich writes to the US Senate: we need a GDPR for the United States
Oct 1, 2018
Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to present the case for GDPR-like data protection standards in the United States.
Regulatory complaint concerning massive, web-wide data breach by Google and other “ad tech” companies under Europe’s GDPR
Sep 12, 2018
Simultaneous complaints have been filed with European data protection authorities against Google and other ad tech firms under the GDPR
Critical data protection problems in the IAB’s new OpenRTB 3.0 Spec
Sep 4, 2018
Today, Brave writes to the IAB (an ad tech trade body) in response to IAB TechLab’s request for feedback on the beta version of OpenRTB 3.0.
Few Realize “Private Mode” Is Not Really Private
Aug 29, 2018
Private browsing is a privacy-enhancing tool, where the web browser does not record users’ private browsing activities on the local device.
Understanding Redirection-Based Tracking
Aug 10, 2018
In this post we aimed to share some interesting and promising, albeit preliminary, results we’ve had for measuring redirection-based tracking online.
The Mounting Cost of Stale Ad Blocking Rules
Jul 18, 2018
We are constantly looking to improve and automate the accuracy and speed of ad blocking built into Brave, and our previous post outlined a machine learning approach to ad blocking.
Brave Writes to All 28 EU Member States, Defending ePrivacy Regulation’s “Privacy By Design and By Default”
Jul 16, 2018
17 July 2018: Brave wrote to the governments of each of the twenty eight Member States of the European Union yesterday and today to express its concern about privacy.
Their connection, your data.
Mar 30, 2017
Why should users care about privacy, and protecting their data from being collected and sold by third parties?
