The browser also blocks tracking pixels and tracking cookies, and you also can set your default search engine to Duck Duck Go, instead of Alphabet’s standard engine. For instance, by integrating HTTPS Everywhere, Brave ensures your connections to websites are always the securest they can be.

The developers want to show tailored, clean ads, in order to help fund website owners and other Brave users alike.īrave does come with a few handy security tools built-in to help protect your privacy. You, the user, can then donate to bloggers and or other web content providers through a micropayment system.īrave has been designed specifically to block ads and trackers, which slow your browsing speed down, spend your bandwidth, and try to access your private data. Brave opts to retain 15% of ad revenue for itself, pay content publishers 55%, ad partners 15%, and, (this is the good bit) give 15% to the browser’s users’. It does this by targeting web ads via an analysis of users’ (anonymous) browsing history. The browser also aims to improve your online privacy by sharing less data with ad customers. In doing so, it will replace them with ads that are sold by Eich’s company. It’s an ultra-secure, open-source web browser that is based upon the Chromium/Blink engine, and it aims to block website trackers and remove intrusive internet ads. Brave Browser blocks trackers and intrusive ads that can slow you down on the webīrave Browser is the brainchild of Brendan Eich (co-founder of the Mozilla Project).

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