Blocking annoying and privacy-harming cookie consent banners

Recent versions of Brave on iOS include many new privacy features, ensuring that Brave iOS users have the strongest available protections of any iOS browser. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 1 year ago

Solana DApp support now available for Brave Wallet desktop, mobile coming soon

Brave Wallet's integration with Solana offers more accessible avenues for DeFi and Web3, via fast transaction speeds, low fees, and a growing ecosystem of decentralized applications. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 1 year ago

Brave Search passes 2.5B queries in its first year

Private, independent search engine exits beta phase on its first anniversary, with innovative features that help users de-Google their search | Continue reading


@brave.com | 1 year ago

Brave’s Use of Direct Mailers

As Brave continues to grow, we find many users who haven't heard of us yet, so we try new marketing channels for efficacy, reach, affordability, and privacy. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 1 year ago

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 alarming and harmful. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 1 year ago

Brave Goggles [pdf]

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@brave.com | 2 years ago

Protecting Against Browser-Language Fingerprinting

Brave has further strengthened its fingerprinting protections by preventing users from being identified based on preferred browser language. Starting with version 1.39, Brave randomizes how your browser informs sites of what language(s) you’ve set as default, and what fonts you h … | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

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 consider “sensitive” data. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

Brave: Preventing Pool-Party Attacks

Brave has identified a new category of tracking vulnerability, forms of which are present in all browsers. We call this category of attack “pool-party” attacks because the attack uses collections (or “pools”) of limited-but-shared resources to create side channels. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

Brave and UC San Diego Announce SugarCoat, Strengthening Web Users’ Privacy

Brave is pleased to announce SugarCoat, the result of a year-long research collaboration with University of California San Diego to create a new system to improve Web privacy without sacrificing compatibility at Web scale. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

The Brave Wallet, a Browser-Native Crypto Wallet with No Extension Required

Today, we launch the Brave Wallet, a native wallet built into the browser, enabling users to store, manage, grow, and swap crypto from within Brave. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

Brave partners with Solana to integrate it into the browser

Brave will integrate the Solana blockchain, providing default Solana ecosystem support to Brave's 42 million MAUs and 1.3 million verified Creators. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser

Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

Brave Talk

Brave Talk brings unlimited, private video calls, right to your browser. No extra apps. No tracking. Just free connections, powered by Brave. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

Brave Launches Brave Talk for Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing

Today, Brave launched Brave Talk, a new privacy-focused video conferencing feature built directly into the Brave browser. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

Brave New Privacy Features

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. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

Brave adds a privacy-focused search engine (beta)

Starting today, users have a new independent option for search which gives them unmatched privacy. Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

The Mounting Cost of Stale Ad Blocking Rules (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. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 2 years ago

Brave Browser Adds Support for Blockchain Domain Names

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. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

Brave Playlist Launches on iOS App

The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

Brave Integrates IPFS

IPFS, the peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to make the Web faster, safer, and more open, has been integrated into Brave, the fast, privacy-oriented browser, reinventing the Web for users, publishers and advertisers. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

Comparing the Network Behavior of Popular Browsers on First-Run

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. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

Goggles: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web [pdf]

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@brave.com | 3 years ago

Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google

Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

What’s Brave Done for My Privacy Lately? Episode #7: Ephemeral Site Storage

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. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

IPFS Support in Brave

Over the past several months, the Brave team has been working with Protocol Labs on adding InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) support in Brave. This is the first deep integration of its kind and we’re very proud to outline how it works in this post. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

Detecting Filter Evasion: Event-Loop-TurnGranularity JavaScript Signatures [pdf]

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@brave.com | 3 years ago

Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader

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. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

Brave Complies With Apple iOS Guidelines

Brave is releasing a new version of our iOS browser in order to comply with recent stipulations made by Apple. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users

November marks one year since we launched Brave 1.0, the most private, safest, and fastest (3-6x) browser. Over the past year, we’ve seen amazing growth on multiple fronts and we’re happy to celebrate Brave 1.0’s first anniversary by announcing that we officially passed 20 millio … | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

90% of EasyList rules are never used [pdf]

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@brave.com | 3 years ago

Global Privacy Control, a New Privacy Standard Proposal

As part of our privacy-in-Web-Standards work, we’re proud to have been involved in the design for the “Global Privacy Control” (GPC) proposal. The GPC proposal allows Web users to signal that they do not want to be tracked online, and where relevant, assert legal privacy rights, … | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

Brave versus Chrome

The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

WebBundles Harmful to Content Blocking, Security Tools, and the Open Web

This is second in a series of blog posts describing new and proposed web standards and how they support or threaten web privacy. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

New data shows publisher revenue impact of cutting 3rd party trackers

This note shares new data on publisher revenue impact from switching off 3rd party ad tracking. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

On Partner Referral Codes in Brave Suggested Sites

Delivering a better Web means protecting people’s privacy while building new, sustainable revenue models for creators and for Brave itself. We are trying new economic models that do not depend on user tracking or privacy violations… | Continue reading


@brave.com | 3 years ago

Crypto Ads in Brave

Binance widget integrated into the Brave browser puts cryptocurrency management and trading at users’ fingertips in first exchange-browser integration of its kind | Continue reading


@brave.com | 4 years ago

Latest Brave Browser update to include Binance cryptocurrency trading widget

Today’s Brave desktop browser update features the Binance widget, the first exchange-browser integration of its kind. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 4 years ago

New data on GDPR enforcement agencies reveal why the GDPR is failing

New data from Brave reveals that European governments have not equipped their national authorities to enforce the GDPR. Brave has called on the European Commission to launch an infringement procedure against 27 European governments. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 4 years ago

Browser First-Run: iOS Edition

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 time. Today I decided to take a look at various browsers available on iOS 13… | Continue reading


@brave.com | 4 years ago

Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all

Brave has filed a GDPR complaint v Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 4 years ago

Fingerprint Randomization in Brave Browser

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 browse … | Continue reading


@brave.com | 4 years ago

Cosmetic Ad Filtering in Brave

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 privac … | Continue reading


@brave.com | 4 years ago

Surveillance on UK council websites [pdf]

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@brave.com | 4 years ago

Brave uncovers widespread surveillance of UK citizens on UK council websites

Brave has uncovered widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites. "Surveillance on UK council websites", a new report from Brave, reveals the extent of private companies’ surveillance of UK citizens when they seek help for addiction, … | Continue reading


@brave.com | 4 years ago

Brave 1.0 Performance: Methodology and Results

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 … | Continue reading


@brave.com | 4 years ago

Per refer you can earn $5

The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software. | Continue reading


@brave.com | 4 years ago