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Request "Off the Record"

Request OTR is another in Brave's suite of features that support the privacy needs of individual users, protecting far beyond the "standard" …
Forgetful Browsing

Forgetful Browsing is similar to, but more powerful and protective than, popular browsing extensions and private browsing modes. It's …
"Google Sign-In" Permission

Starting in version 1.51, Brave will increase user privacy by extending the brower's permission system to cover legacy Google Sign-In…

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Web standards

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First-Party Sets: Tearing Down Privacy Defenses Just as They're Being Built

Google is proposing a feature called "First-Party Sets," which would have browsers reduce privacy barriers between sites. This is both …
Google's Topics API: Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues

The Topics API does not address the core harmfulness of FLoC: that it’s arrogant and dangerous for Google to be the arbiter of what users …
Privacy And Competition Concerns with Google’s Privacy Sandbox

The UK CMA (along with other regulators and web activists) are largely evaluating Google’s Privacy Sandbox as an isolated, independent set …

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Research

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FrodoPIR: Simple, Scalable, Single-Server Private Information Retrieval

We design FrodoPIR — a highly configurable, stateful, single-server Private Information Retrieval (PIR) scheme that involves an offline …
Pool-Party: Exploiting Browser Resource Pools for Web Tracking

We identify class of covert channels in browsers that are not mitigated by current defenses, which we call "pool-party" attacks. Pool-party …
Tango or Square Dance? How Tightly Should we Integrate Network Functionality in Browsers?

The question at which layer network functionality is presented or abstracted remains a research challenge. Traditionally, network …

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Brave announces Filecoin integration and more preloaded EVM chains in Brave Wallet

Jun 21, 2022

Today’s Brave browser release (v1.40) is expanding on the mission of making Brave Wallet a safe, easy-to-use onramp to Web3. It gives users easy access to new chains and decentralized apps (DApps), right in the browser, no extensions required.

Research Paper: Privacy and Security Issues in Web 3.0

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.

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.

Unstoppable Domains and Brave to Provide Millions of Users Access to the Decentralized Web

May 13, 2021

Blockchain domain name provider Unstoppable Domains today announced a collaboration with privacy-oriented web browser Brave that enables native browser support for the crypto domain name company.

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.

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.