Blog
Welcome to the Brave blog, your front page for feature releases, privacy enhancements, company updates, info for advertisers, and more.
Sep 13, 2018
Brave, which combines an innovative privacy browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, and Qwant, the European search engine that respects the privacy of its users, announced today that they are partnering to boost privacy on the Web by integrating Qwant as the default search engine in the Brave browser in France and Germany.
Sep 12, 2018
Simultaneous complaints have been filed with European data protection authorities against Google and other ad tech firms under the GDPR
Sep 6, 2018
The most recent AMA took place on September 5th with Dr. Johnny Ryan, Brave’s Chief Policy and Industry Relations Officer.
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.
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.
Aug 17, 2018
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.
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.
Aug 3, 2018
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.
Jul 26, 2018
Following the October 2017 ETHWaterloo Hackathon, Brave became the first desktop web browser to suggest MetaMask upon visiting any Web3 site.
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.
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.
Jul 15, 2018
16 July 2018: A ruling of the European Court of Justice last month exposes marketers to severe legal risk from programmatic advertising.
Jul 12, 2018
Brave now has over 3 million monthly active users (over 3.1 million as of July 1st) and is currently growing at a pace to pass the 5 million mark before the end of 2018.
Jun 28, 2018
This new functionality, currently in beta, integrates Tor into the browser and gives users a new browsing mode that helps protect their privacy not only on device but over the network.
Jun 20, 2018
Brave is pleased to announce that Dr. Johnny Ryan is joining the company as Chief Policy & Industry Relations Officer.
Jun 19, 2018
We’ve been busy building our new Basic Attention Token (BAT) platform, which includes a new consent-based digital advertising model that benefits users, publishers, and advertisers.
Jun 6, 2018
Today, we are starting a monthly giveaway of about 500,000 USD in promotional Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) to Brave desktop browser users on a first come, first serve basis.
May 25, 2018
This week, Brave unveiled new research that is under submission to an upcoming conference regarding how to improve and automate ad blocking with AdGraph, a graph-based machine learning approach for detecting ads and trackers on a given web page.
May 16, 2018
Today we released a new desktop version of Brave (0.22.714) which features significant performance improvements for users who typically use many tabs and windows.
Open the installer from Chrome's downloads (it should be in the upper right corner of this window).
If you're prompted to, click “Yes” in the User Access Control dialog.
Wait for the installation to finish, then import your browser settings from Chrome.
If your download didn’t start automatically, click here.
