Brave (web browser)

Brave
Brave Logo
Brave 0.8.2
Developer(s) Brendan Eich and Community members
Written in C , JavaScript , C++
Operating system Linux,Windows,OS X,Android,iOS
Type Web browser
License MPL v2
Website www.brave.com (github.com/brave/)

Brave is an open source[1][2][3] web browser, announced by the co-founder of the Mozilla Project, Brendan Eich. It aims to block website trackers and remove intrusive internet advertisements, replacing them with ads sold by Eich's company. The browser also strives to improve online privacy by sharing less data with advertising customers, instead targeting web ads through analysis of users' anonymized browsing history. Brave intends to keep 15% of ad revenue for itself, pay content publishers 55%, ad partners 15% and also give 15% to the browser users, who can in turn donate to bloggers and other providers of web content through micropayments.[4][5] As of 2016, it is currently in version 0.9, and is in beta testing for iOS, Android, Windows, OS X, and Linux.[6]

History

Brave was first announced by founder Brendan Eich on January 20, 2016 with the stated goal of providing an alternative to the widely-adopted system of providing free content to end users supported by advertising revenue that is employed by many content creators and publishers on the World Wide Web.[7]

Eich identifies an impending conflict between advertisers, who are incented to collect and store detailed and, often times, highly personal information about individual web users in order to deliver more effective advertisements, and users, who are increasingly averse to the collection of their personal information, as a "primal threat" to the web itself.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "brave/browser-laptop". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  2. ↑ "brave/browser-android". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  3. ↑ "brave/browser-ios". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  4. ↑ "What is Brave Ad Replacement?". Brave.com.
  5. ↑ "Mozilla co-founder unveils Brave, a browser that blocks ads by default". Ars Technica.
  6. ↑ "Brave is the speedy browser that strips out web tracker and ads (for now) - TechSpot". Techspot.com. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
  7. 1 2 "How to Fix the Web". Brave.com.

External links

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