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We've partnered with to integrate it into the browser and make it the default for DApp support. We will soon bring best-in-class wallet features for the Solana blockchain into our desktop & mobile browsers. #BreakpointLisbon
We're thrilled to partner with to bring cryptocurrency trading directly into the browser. The new Binance widget makes Brave the only browser that offers integrated functionality for buying/trading cryptocurrency (in Nightly version today).
Today we're announcing Brave Search and the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine. Brave Search and the Brave browser constitute the industry’s first independent, privacy-preserving alternative to Big Tech. Privacy is becoming mainstream.
We are aware that YouTube is running a limited test to block ad blockers.
YouTube has been trying to stop ad blockers for years. We will continue finding ways to stop ads and trackers so users can enjoy a private, safe and uncluttered browsing experience.
Huge day at Brave: 1.0 is out, ready for all users! With 3-6x faster browsing, unmatched privacy, and opt-in ads that pay users 70% of revenue, it's time to switch and end surveillance capitalism. Also, Brave Rewards now on iOS!
With today's desktop browser update (v1.19), Brave is the first browser to offer a native integration, enabling users to seamlessly browse the decentralized Web,
and increasing content availability and Internet resilience.
Today we're thrilled to announce Brave Search is now 100% independent!
We've removed the last remnants of Bing from our privacy-preserving search engine's results so users are now entirely served by Brave's independent search index.
Read more here: brave.com/search-indepen
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5 years ago, & co-founded Brave. Today we passed 15 million monthly active users and 5 million daily active users. Also, 1,530 privacy-preserving ad campaigns in 1 year. Thank you to our users & looking forward to our next 5 years!
Introducing the beta of our Private Tabs with Tor! Today's Brave desktop release (0.23.19) integrates Tor into the browser and gives users a new browsing mode
that helps protect privacy not only on device but over the network. brave.com/tor-tabs-beta/
Browsers inside apps like Instagram or TikTok can threaten your privacy or security by injecting tracking code into third-party sites you visit.
For example, TikTok can see everything you input into these sites including credit card info or passwords: krausefx.com/blog/announcin
Strong growth for Brave this past month. Thank you to all our users! ❤️
This week, Microsoft disabled Internet Explorer on most versions of Windows 10.
Microsoft wants you to switch to Edge but you should try Brave instead. Brave blocks ads and trackers by default so your browsing is safer and more private as soon as you install it!
How to make YouTube better in two steps:
1. Close the YouTube app.
2. Open YouTube in Brave instead.
Now you can enjoy your videos without the ads or trackers! 👍
You’ll forget YouTube ever had ads when you use Brave. Our browser lets you block the ads cluttering up YT so you can enjoy your videos.
Sick of sitting through YouTube ads?
Save time by watching YouTube through Brave. Our browser blocks YT ads whether you're on your computer or your phone.
Huge Brave milestones as we've passed 10 million monthly active users, tripled our daily active users in the last 12 months, and our Verified creators have grown 12x over 2019. Thank you to our loyal users, and to our new users since 1.0 last month!
Now 8 million monthly active users for Brave, & nearly 400 privacy-preserving ad campaigns (with a stellar 14% click-through rate, compared to 2% industry average)! Thank you to all our users and partners as we expand our platform for a better Internet.
Today's desktop browser update (1.8.86) features the widget (the first exchange-browser integration of its kind), enabling seamless cryptocurrency trading and management. Details and demo video here:
New desktop browser release today (67.123) with Twitter tipping! Brave users can enable Brave Rewards and click the “tip” button on each tweet to send directly to the author of the tweet for an amount of their choosing. #TipWithBrave
Another year of private browsing is over! 🎉
What are your Brave Stats now?
Today we passed 20 million monthly active users and 7 million daily active users, a 2.3x increase in 1 year. Thank you to all our users! Also, nearly 1 million Brave Verified Creators, and over 2,000 ad campaigns in nearly 200 countries. Growth details:
We're thrilled to launch the new #BraveWallet, a crypto wallet built into the Brave desktop browser (mobile coming soon), enabling Brave users to store, manage, grow, and swap their crypto portfolio from a single wallet, as well as connect with Web3 DApps.
Brave will block those annoying cookie consent pop ups when version 1.45 goes live!
Full details here: brave.com/privacy-update
Google's upcoming Manifest V3 update for extensions has the potential to break many ad blockers.
But Manifest V3 will not prevent Brave from blocking ads. We built ad blocking into the browser itself so it will not be affected by Google changing its rules for extensions.
The new privacy-preserving #BraveSearch beta is available for all Brave users (desktop/Android/iOS), as well as from other browsers at search.brave.com. Built on top of an independent index, it doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.
Fantastic growth for Brave this month as we passed 46 million monthly active users (up from 42 in October). Thank you to ALL of our users!
Brave is now the top-rated browser on the Google Play Store in the US! 🎉
Thank you to all of our Android users for your positive reviews and for the feedback that helps us keep improving!
You may have heard that Google is "killing" ad blockers with its upcoming Manifest V3 changes for extensions. But the truth is that Manifest V3 won't stop Brave's built-in protections against ads and trackers.
Thanks for the yummy cake and kind words, ! It's great to be a part of the browser cake-giving tradition. 🍰
Today we're launching the 1st ad platform built on privacy. Brave desktop browser (0.63.48) users who opt into Brave Ads receive 70% of ad revenue share. Brave puts the user in control, rewards them for their attention, and helps fund content creators.
YouTube's newest idea is showing you FIVE unskippable ads instead of the usual two. Some users even reported seeing ten!
The number of YouTube ads you'll see with Brave, though? Still zero.
Our research team presents VPN⁰, the first distributed virtual private network (dVPN) with strong privacy requirements and high performance. We hope it will foster the development of future VPN solutions and protocols.
A big thank you to all our loyal users, community members, and open source contributors: you've been using Brave, shared feedback with us, and helped make Brave 1.0 a browser we can now all share with everyone.
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Brave Removes Google as its Default Search Engine
Google has introduced a new feature into Chrome that helps companies track you.
First-Party Sets (FPS) lets multiple sites group up to share user activity. Effectively, one site can track you across all the sites in its set without your knowledge or consent.
Our Nightly version for North America now features Brave Together, our private and unlimited video calling service based on open source . Click on the widget & start connecting with friends/colleagues. Feedback welcome at community.brave.com/c/nightly-buil for this trial version.
We're thrilled to welcome as a Brave Verified Publisher! Now Brave users can make donations seamlessly via Brave Rewards to reward their favorite content.
New Brave desktop browser available for download at brave.com/download/. This latest milestone on our way to 1.0 is Chromium-based, has 22% faster load time than our previous Muon-based version, & unveils Brave Rewards beta (previously Brave Payments). brave.com/new-brave-brow
We apologize to our users for the error we made when adding affiliate codes to suggest alternative completions shown in the drop-down under the address bar. This is now fixed & a just-released desktop version (1.9.80) addresses this issue. Details here:
Today’s desktop release (1.39) brings Web3 updates for #BraveWallet & , including first steps of our integration.
Buy, sell & store $SOL and SPL in Brave Wallet
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Use $BAT on Solana, & EVM chains
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BAT Roadmap 2.0 — Brave Decentralized Exchange (DEX) announced: Discounts when using BAT for transaction fees, discounts for BAT holders, BAT utility for search engines; new Brave Wallet, and more
Today Brave is releasing the Brave Search API, allowing developers to incorporate high-quality search results from billions of pages into their products.
Our Search API will create real choice and independence from Big Tech for anyone building search and AI applications.
Brave's protections won't be affected by Google's proposed Manifest V3 changes, because Brave Shields (blocking) and built-in enhancements use native code and don't rely on Chromium's extensions API. Brave uses a forked Chromium, which lets us make changes as needed.
Hate being asked by websites like LinkedIn to switch to their app?
Brave iOS now blocks those pop-ups by default with its latest update (v1.44). Enjoy!
Brave on Android now blocks irritating "Switch to App" notifications with the v1.50 update!
"Switch to App" pop-up blocking, a new way that Brave makes browsing more convenient while preserving your privacy, is also available on iOS and Desktop.
Thrilled that Brave for now has over 10 million downloads! 😍 Thank you to our users for choosing to browse faster and safer, and for valuing privacy protection! play.google.com/store/apps/det
Today Brave Search is releasing its own image and video search!
Now any Brave Search query can be served directly from Brave’s own index, enabling users to benefit from a fully independent search engine that protects their privacy and is censorship-resistant.
✨Brave's support is expanding today with version 1.41!
#BraveWallet desktop users can now directly connect to Solana-based DApps such as:
🎨 for NFTs
🎵 for music discovery
🏃 for fitness
Learn more 👇
New desktop browser release today (1.3.113) with New Tab Page Sponsored Images (70% revenue share for the user), the ability to opt in to privacy-respecting Brave Ads for over 30 new regions, a Chromium upgrade (80.0.3987.87), and many fixes.
The Brave Wallet is now available in beta release on our Android app (and soon on iOS), enabling mobile users to test crypto access. Users can store, manage, grow, and swap their crypto portfolio from a crypto wallet built into the Brave mobile browser.
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We passed 5.5 million monthly active users and now have 28,000 Verified publishers. Along with key partnerships and product redesigns, 2018 was busy for us. We can't wait for more achievements together in 2019!
A huge thank you to all of our users for choosing Brave! For the 5th year in a row, we’ve doubled the number of our monthly active users (from 24 million on 12/31/2020 to over 50 million now). Looking forward to 2022 as we aim to double this growth again!
Brave now blocks one of the internet's biggest nuisances: pop-ups asking you to accept or reject cookies. The cookie banner blocking feature officially debuted this week and is gradually rolling out to Windows and Android users.
Read more here: brave.com/privacy-update
More growth this past month as we passed 36 million monthly active users! Thank you to all of our fans!
Big news! We're excited to announce that Brave is building a smart assistant. 🤖
Get a sneak peek of Brave Home in the video below and leave comments to tell us what you think. 👇
#BeBrave #SwitchToBrave #AmazonEcho #Alexa #GoogleHome #ProtectYourData
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ICYMI: Brave on desktop can now quickly remove extra text strings from URLs so you can share clean links.
To use the feature, just right-click the URL bar and select "Copy clean link."
ICYMI: Brave Search is now 100% independent, giving users a real alternative to Big Tech!
Learn more here: brave.com/search-indepen
We passed 3 million monthly active users and made the Top 10 list in 21 countries in the Play Store! 🔥 Thank you to all of our users for browsing with Brave! brave.com/brave-passes-3
Today's Brave desktop browser update (1.23.71) has the new Favorites feature, so you can now customize your top sites on the New Tab Page. Also, adblock custom filters update, several IPFS & Tor fixes, and Chromium 90.0.4430.72 update.
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Thrilled to share that our growth was strong in May (up from 30 million MAU and 10.6 million DAU in April). Thank you to all of our loyal users!
25.4 million monthly active users! Also, 8.6 million daily active users, and 1 million verified creators! We're thankful for all of our users, and looking forward to more amazing growth in 2021.
A new privacy-first browser can replace Chrome on all your devices
We're excited to partner with for the #MetaBUILD #hackathon ($1,000,000 in prizes). Check out the NEAR x Brave bus in SF, and sign up to get hacking: metabuild.devpost.com/details/sponso
Our latest stats are showing more growth this past June, as more users are switching to the Brave browser. Thank you to all 33.8 M of you!
With today's desktop browser update (v1.36.116), privacy-preserving and independent Brave Search replaces DuckDuckGo as the default search engine for our Private Windows with Tor.
Download here: brave.com/download/
A future Brave update will automatically strip the tracking strings from links so you can easily share the clean URL.
Read this article to learn more about the feature, now available for testing on the beta and Nightly builds of our browser.
Google’s “Web Environment Integrity” (WEI) proposal, which limits access to websites to users running verified browsers or operating systems, intentionally shifts power away from users, and towards large websites and advertisers.
We strongly oppose WEI: brave.com/web-standards-
We're rolling out De-AMP, which allows Brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages and instead visit the content’s publisher directly. AMP pages harm users’ privacy, security, & Internet experience, & help Google further control the direction of the Web.
YouTube has more unskippable ads than ever, but don't pay for a YouTube Premium subscription to get rid of them.
Use Brave to block all of these ads for free. No extra set up needed! 😌
Download our browser here: brave.com/download/
Brave now has an easy-to-use screenshot tool! 📸
Just click the Share icon next to the URL bar, choose "Screenshot," and then click and drag area you want to capture!
The image is copied to your clipboard automatically but you can also download it.
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For users of our Nightly desktop version, we're testing a new feature for tipping tweets with Brave Rewards. Tips are sent instantly for those verified via creators.brave.com (tips to unverified users are held in your browser). Feedback welcome via community.brave.com.
Brave Search is now getting over 150 million queries per month (up from 80 million in October), and we’re testing the new Brave Search Premium payment system ($3 monthly subscription) ahead of ads in the new year (details soon). Get in early to support independent search!
Using Twitter through Brave instead of Twitter's own app lets you take advantage of our browser's privacy protections.
Here's how to add a shortcut to Twitter in Brave on your iOS device's Home Screen for easy access. 🧵
We're building a search engine that respects your privacy. Be among the first to try the new Brave Search. Sign up here: brave.com/search/
Privacy-first browser Brave now has its own Google search rival
The is now also available on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), enabling holders to participate in the emerging DeFi ecosystem.
Brave.com now has a .onion service, providing more users with secure access to Brave. See how our devops engineer created this setup, which you should be able to use to create your own onion service #MoreOnionsPorFavor:
Brave on Android and desktop will soon block website pop-ups asking you to use their apps!
Learn more about the feature, already live on iOS, here: ghacks.net/2023/02/25/ope
We've heard your feedback and we're making changes to Brave Rewards (available tomorrow). It will 1) clearly indicate which creators have not yet joined & 2) not show unverified creator images in tipping panel. More features for near-term, see details:
"The browser Brave pays its users 70% of the revenue it generates from ads they see. Brave compensates them in its Basic Attention Tokens, which they can redeem for currency or use to tip their favorite sites. Users report earning $5-$10 monthly." wsj.com/articles/perso via
Through our integration with , we're supporting access to the decentralized Web. Now Brave users on desktop and Android have access to 30,000 decentralized websites and 700,000 blockchain domain names registered with Unstoppable Domains.
The Brave browser iOS app now offers search in Private Tabs to improve privacy. 🦁 🦆 Now you can search without the search engine collecting data about you, as DuckDuckGo never collects or shares personal information. brave.com/duckduckgo-in-
Many websites nag you to switch to their apps to make it easier to track you.
Starting in v1.49, Brave on Android and desktop will hide these irritating pop-ups. The feature is live now on iOS!
Read more about upcoming Brave privacy features here: brave.com/privacy-update
Brave is the latest major internet player to ditch Google’s cookie alternative
One year ago, we acquired Tailcat, the foundation of our search engine. Last June, we launched Brave Search. Last week, Brave Search passed 10 million daily queries, which annualizes to over 3.4 billion queries.
Turns out users really want privacy and independence in search.
A new bill proposed in the U.S. Congress would ban TikTok from being downloaded onto any device in the United States due to privacy and security concerns.
Read more here: thehill.com/homenews/38306
Brave on desktop and Android now has an "HTTPS by Default" feature that loads all sites over HTTPS to make your connection more private and secure. 🔒
This is the most protective default HTTPS policy of any popular browser.
Learn more: brave.com/privacy-update
You can do better than Chrome!
Brave blocks the ads and trackers that violate your privacy and slow down your browsing. You can import your settings and extensions from Chrome too to make the switch even easier!
Download Brave here: brave.com/download
. DApp support is now available on Brave for iOS and Android!
In addition to storing, sending, and buying SPL tokens in the wallet, you can now also connect and interact with apps like , , and , right in your browser app.