Latest Brave news

Brave browser launches privacy-focused AI assistant on Android

Brave Software is the next company to jump into AI, announcing a new privacy-preserving AI assistant called "Leo" is rolling out on the Android version of its browser through the latest release, version 1.63.
- Bill Toulas
- February 29, 2024
- 03:42 PM
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Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

Brave Software has announced plans to deprecate the 'Strict' fingerprinting protection mode in its privacy-focused Brave Browser because it causes many sites to function incorrectly.
- Bill Toulas
- January 21, 2024
- 10:19 AM
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Brave Search adds private image and video search capability

The privacy-focused search engine Brave Search has finally introduced its own, independent image and video search capabilities, breaking free from relying on Bing and Google for media search.
- Bill Toulas
- August 03, 2023
- 12:00 PM
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Browser developers push back on Google's “web DRM” WEI API

Google's plans to introduce the Web Environment Integrity (WEI) API on Chrome has been met with fierce backlash from internet software developers, drawing criticism for limiting user freedom and undermining the core principles of the open web.
- Bill Toulas
- July 29, 2023
- 10:11 AM
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Brave Browser boosts privacy with new local resources restrictions

The Brave team has announced that the privacy-centric browser will soon introduce new restriction controls allowing users to specify how long sites can access local network resources.
- Bill Toulas
- June 28, 2023
- 11:44 AM
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Brave unveils new "Forgetful Browsing" anti-tracking feature

The privacy-focused Brave Browser is introducing a new "Forgetful Browsing" feature that prevents sites from re-identifying you on subsequent visits.
- Bill Toulas
- May 14, 2023
- 10:14 AM
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Brave browser to block “open in app” prompts, pool-party attacks

Brave Software, the developer of the privacy-focused web browser, has announced some plants for the upcoming version 1.49 that will block everyday browsing annoyances like "open in app" prompts and add better protections against pool-party attacks,
- Bill Toulas
- February 24, 2023
- 04:38 AM
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Brave browser’s new Snowflake feature help bypass Tor blocks

Brave Browser version 1.47 was released yesterday, adding the Snowflake extension in the software's settings, enabling users to turn their devices into proxies that help users in censored countries connect to Tor.
- Bill Toulas
- January 14, 2023
- 10:28 AM
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Brave launches FrodoPIR, a privacy-focused database query system

Brave Software developers have created a new privacy-centric database query system called FrodoPIR that retrieves data from servers without disclosing the content of user queries.
- Bill Toulas
- December 22, 2022
- 11:08 AM
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Brave starts showing "privacy-preserving" ads in search results

Brave Software announced that, as part of a global beta program, it is now displaying "privacy-preserving ads" in-between results shown by its web search engine to select users.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 01, 2022
- 01:24 PM
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Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners

The Brave browser will soon allows users to block annoying and potentially privacy-harming cookie consent banners on all websites they visit.
- Bill Toulas
- September 29, 2022
- 11:07 AM
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Privacy-focused Brave Search grew by 5,000% in a year

Brave Search, the browser developer's privacy-centric Internet search engine, is celebrating its first anniversary after surpassing 2.5 billion queries and seeing almost 5,000% growth in a year.
- Bill Toulas
- June 22, 2022
- 12:00 PM
- 2
MetaMask, Phantom warn of flaw that could steal your crypto wallets

MetaMask and Phantom are warning of a new 'Demonic' vulnerability that could expose a crypto wallet's secret recovery phrase, allowing attackers to steal NFTs and cryptocurrency stored within it.
- Bill Toulas
- June 16, 2022
- 10:19 AM
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Brave adds Discussions to enrich its search results

Brave, the maker of the homonymous web browser, has announced a new feature called Discussions that adds conversations from online forums to its privacy-focused search engine.
- Bill Toulas
- April 20, 2022
- 09:00 AM
- 1
Privacy-focused Brave browser records massive growth in 2021

The privacy-focused web browser Brave continues to grow rapidly as the company reached 50 million monthly active users for the first time in 2021.
- Mayank Parmar
- January 05, 2022
- 06:32 PM
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Brave ditches Google for its own privacy-centric search engine

Brave Browser has replaced Google with its own no-tracking privacy-centric Brave Search as the default search engine for new users in five regions.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 19, 2021
- 05:28 PM
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Brave web browser will add bounce tracking privacy protection

Brave, the privacy-conscious web browser, has announced plans to introduce additional privacy protections against 'bounce tracking,' a newer form of tracking that is not currently blocked by the browser.
- Bill Toulas
- October 15, 2021
- 09:37 AM
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Brave launches its privacy-focused no-tracking search engine

Today, Brave launched their non-tracking privacy-centric search engine to bring another alternative to finding the information you want on the web without giving up your data.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 22, 2021
- 03:14 PM
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Vivaldi, Brave, DuckDuckGo reject Google's FLoC ad tracking tech

Makers of Vivaldi and Brave web browsers have rejected Google's new privacy-preserving proposal called FLoC, which is meant to replace third-party tracking cookies across websites on browsers, including Chrome.
- Ax Sharma
- April 14, 2021
- 11:59 AM
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Brave privacy bug exposes Tor onion URLs to your DNS provider

Brave Browser is fixing a privacy issue that leaks the Tor onion URL addresses you visit to your locally configured DNS server, exposing the dark web websites you visit.
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 19, 2021
- 11:37 AM
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