Brave 1.0, a free open-source browser has now been officially launched after the beta version of the software amassed 8 million monthly users worldwide and now the full stable version of the privacy-first browser is available for download on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
Brave Browser comes in with keeping your privacy as it’s first priority and it comes with blocking third-party ads, trackers, and auto play videos automatically as default which means you don’t have to browse through settings and change them yourself to keep your browser usage protected.
Other browsers also comes in with similar features but in some cases either these browsers are limited or needs to be enabled manually. Mozilla Firefox offers to block some trackers by default which added earlier this year, Safari blocks almost all third-party trackers from sites which you don’t visit frequently while allowing trackers from sites you check regularly but limiting their duration to 24 hours.
Upcoming Microsoft Edge might have the similar feature to only blocks some trackers by default. Mobile version of the Microsoft Edge offers ad blocker but you need to turn it on.
Ad-blockers are a big blockers to publishers that earns every time you visit their websites or pages with ads to generate revenue. Brave has its own way to keep it different then other web browsers with it’s own Brave Ads: a different form of ads that pays you to view them, doesn’t access your data, and appears as push notifications rather than webpage banners.
The company says that its ads will be targeted to the user, but none of the user’s information will leave the browser an also offers the ability to adjust the number of ads you’re shown each hour. Brave offers rewards as blockchain tokens when they choose to receive Brave Ads using those tokens you can make donations and you can also cash them using Brave’s partner Uphold or eventually trade those tokens for gift cards and restaurant vouchers.
Brave Browser also offers two modes in the Private Mode: Private Window and Private Window with Tor. The first one is same as any other private mode which protects from saving your data in the device but the other one which includes Tor also known as The Onion Router, a browser that hides your information by encrypting it and passing it through three relays, bringing that level of security to your browsing.
Brave is founded by Brendan Eich, who co-founded Mozilla with its rival Firefox browser. He was forced to resign from CEO at Mozilla in 2014 after a controversy edging his $1,000 donation in favor of a ballot proposition to ban same-sex marriage in California some years earlier.
Brave is similar to Google Chrome it was also built using Chromium, it even allows you to download extension and themes from Chrome Web Store. One major difference is that Brave is not owned by Google and in some form you might found Brave performing faster than Chrome.
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