Oct 14, 2021
This is the eleventh post in an ongoing, regular series describing new privacy features in Brave. This post describes work done by Senior Software Engineer Mark Pilgrim and Filter List Engineer Ryan Brown, and was written by Director of Privacy Peter Snyder.
Oct 13, 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.
Sep 22, 2021
Today, Brave launched Brave Talk, a new privacy-focused video conferencing feature built directly into the Brave browser.
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.
Sep 21, 2021
This is the tenth in a series of blog posts on new Brave privacy features. This post describes work done by Anton Lazarev, Research Engineer. Authors: Peter Snyder and Anton Lazarev.
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.
Sep 1, 2021
This is the ninth in a series of blog posts on new Brave privacy features. Author: Peter Snyder, Director of Privacy and Senior Privacy Researcher. Implementation: Anton Lazarev, Research Engineer.
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.
Jul 21, 2021
This is the eighth in an ongoing, regular series of blog posts, describing new privacy-related features in Brave. Written by Peter Snyder, Director of Privacy.
Apr 12, 2021
Brave opposes FLoC, a recent Google proposal that would have your browser share your browsing behavior and interests by default with every site and advertiser with which you interact.
Mar 8, 2021
You can learn quite a bit about a browser from observing the requests it makes in its first moments with a new user profile. Often, a cursory examination will tell you a great deal about how the browser thinks about, and handles, user privacy and security.
Feb 1, 2021
This post presents “ephemeral site storage”, a new strategy for managing third-party storage in Brave, designed to improve Web compatibility, while maintaining the same level of privacy protection.
Dec 10, 2020
The Brave Today news reader is accessible below the new tab page and is delivered anonymously to the user’s browser via Brave’s new 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.
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.
Dec 10, 2020
Brave is releasing a new version of our iOS browser in order to comply with recent stipulations made by Apple.
Nov 30, 2020
Brave and Gala Games Partner to Feature BAT Support in New Mirandus Game Cyber Monday Promotion Gives Brave Users 25% Discount for Land Deed Purchases with BAT Gala Games, the blockchain games studio expanding the network of player-owned game assets, and Brave, makers...
Nov 19, 2020
Binance Widget Now Available to Brave Android Users, Allowing Easy Trading, Buying, and Managing of Cryptocurrency Today’s Brave Android browser update (version 1.17) features the Binance widget, which is already available to Brave desktop users and was the first...
Oct 27, 2020
This post discusses a recent technique trackers use, CNAME cloaking, and a new feature in Brave that keeps Brave users protected.
Aug 25, 2020
WebBundles Harmful to Content Blocking, Security Tools, and the Open Web (Standards Updates #2) This is second in a series of blog posts describing new and proposed web standards and how they support or threaten web privacy. This post is written by Senior Privacy...
Aug 5, 2020
Brave today announced that Dr Johnny Ryan, FRHistS, Brave’s Chief Policy and Industry Relations Officer, is departing from Brave to join the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. He will also take up a Senior Fellow position at the Open Markets Institute.
Jul 20, 2020
In order to stay one step ahead of online trackers, Brave regularly releases new privacy features and improvements. This post discusses three recent changes in Brave that each help make the web a more privacy, and person, respecting platform.
May 18, 2020
Brave is redesigning its browser fingerprinting defenses to build on the randomization-based techniques discussed in the previous post. These new defenses provide stronger and more web-compatible protections by default…
Apr 24, 2020
Browser First-Run: iOS Edition The following review was conducted by Sampson, Senior Developer Relations Specialist at Brave. Last year I did a review of several popular desktop browsers, focusing exclusively on what they do when you launch the browser for the first...
Mar 5, 2020
Brave now protects users from being fingerprinted by making them appear subtly different to each website. Browser fingerprinting protection is available today in our Nightly version. These new protections both provide the strongest fingerprinting protections of any popular browser, and work without introducing bothersome permission prompts or breaking websites.
Feb 20, 2020
Problem: Blocking Trackers Sometimes Breaks Sites. One of many ways Brave protects your privacy on the Web is by blocking requests to trackers. By blocking these requests, Brave prevents you from being followed around the Web, and from ad companies, data brokers, and other privacy-harming parties from recording your online activity.
Feb 6, 2020
Google recently announced that their Chrome Web browser will — with luck, and if a bunch of other conditions come to pass — probably start blocking third-party cookies.
Jan 23, 2020
Problem: Blocking Trackers Sometimes Breaks Sites. One of many ways Brave protects your privacy on the Web is by blocking requests to trackers. By blocking these requests, Brave prevents you from being followed around the Web, and from ad companies, data brokers, and other privacy-harming parties from recording your online activity.
Nov 6, 2019
Brave, Fingerprinting, and Privacy Budgets This work was written by Peter Snyder, Privacy researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. One of Brave’s core goals is to protect peoples’ privacy online, and to prevent online trackers from...
Oct 7, 2019
zkSENSE: a privacy-preserving mechanism for bot detection in mobile devices This research was conducted by Stan (Jiexin) Zhang, a research intern at Brave and a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Security Researcher at Brave, and...
Oct 2, 2019
VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Virtual Private Network This research presents VPN⁰, the first distributed virtual private network offering a privacy preserving traffic authorization and validation mechanism. This research was conducted by Dr. Matteo Varvello...
Sep 18, 2019
Brave Tops Browser First-Run Network Traffic Results What does a browser do when you first launch it? One of the first things most of us do when sitting down at our computer is launch a web browser. By and large, we’re usually re-launching a browser that we were using...
Aug 22, 2019
Privacy-Preserving Product Analytics (P3A) Introduction At Brave, we want our browser not only to provide the best protection against the surveillance economy, but to be the very best way to experience the web. We rely extensively on community feedback to make sure...
Aug 20, 2019
With Yubico partnership and support for the new YubiKey 5Ci, Brave is the first web browser to offer secure phishing-resistant authentication via robust security keys on iPhones & iPads Earlier this summer, Brave and Yubico announced a partnership to bring...
Jun 26, 2019
Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance by 69x with New Engine Implementation in Rust This blog was written by Dr. Andrius Aucinas, performance researcher at Brave, and Dr. Ben Livshits, Brave’s Chief Scientist. Brave Shields, which protect users’ privacy from...
Jun 24, 2019
Adding YubiKey Support to Brave for iOS We’re excited to partner with Yubico to bring YubiKey support to Brave for iOS. Yubico is the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys — devices which protect logins to online accounts from phishing,...
Jun 13, 2019
Supporting The Web Privacy Community Brave is a proud member of the Web privacy community. Brave relies on the terrific work of the Tor Project, EasyList/EasyPrivacy communities, Disconnect, and the uBlock Origin/uMatrix projects, among many others, to protect Brave...
May 23, 2019
Requirement Analysis of Decentralized Virtual Private Networks (dVPNs) Despite some advantages over VPNs, current solutions for dVPNs lack strong privacy and performance guarantees. This research was conducted by Dr. Matteo Varvello, performance researcher at Brave,...
May 9, 2019
Brave’s Concerns with the Client-Hints Proposal Web Standards and User Privacy: Brave’s Concerns with the Client-Hints Proposal By Brave employees Pete Snyder, privacy researcher, Pranjal Jumde, security engineer, Tom Lowenthal, product manager for privacy and...
Feb 13, 2019
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...
Feb 12, 2019
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...
Jan 15, 2019
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 design Today we’re previewing our new digital advertising model in Brave’s Developer channel. Developers and...
Jan 5, 2019
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 partnerships As we look ahead to 2019 and our upcoming Brave 1.0 release with Brave Ads that will reward...
Dec 4, 2018
Investigation needed to stop anticompetitive practices that hurt publishers, restrict innovation, and limit consumer choice.
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.
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).
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.
Nov 1, 2018
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...
Oct 19, 2018
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...
Oct 10, 2018
This is Brave’s response to a call for stakeholder input from the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager.
Oct 5, 2018
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...
Oct 1, 2018
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.
Sep 21, 2018
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...
Sep 13, 2018
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...
Sep 12, 2018
Regulatory complaint concerning massive, web-wide data breach by Google and other “ad tech” companies under Europe’s GDPR Latest updates: read more about the RTB complaints. Mail list: receive updates & research notes in your inbox. Dublin, Ireland and...
Sep 6, 2018
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...
Aug 29, 2018
Few Realize “Private Mode” Is Not Really Private Preliminary results of a user study 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...
Aug 23, 2018
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...
Aug 17, 2018
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...
Aug 10, 2018
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...
Aug 3, 2018
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...
Jul 26, 2018
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...
Jul 18, 2018
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....
Jul 12, 2018
Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.
Jun 28, 2018
Today we’re releasing our latest desktop browser Brave 0.23 which features Private Tabs with Tor, a technology for defending against network surveillance.
Mar 30, 2017
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...
Apr 7, 2016
Brave’s Response to the NAA: A Better Deal for Publishers The following post contains early plans for, and descriptions of, the Brave Publisher Ads program. Publishers were expected to earn no less than 55% of ad revenue for participating in this program. This...
Jan 27, 2016
How Brave Works for You The following post contains early plans for, and descriptions of, the Brave Publisher Ads program. Publishers were expected to earn no less than 55% of ad revenue for participating in this program. This program has not yet launched for...
