Brave announced that expanded trials would follow. This version of Brave came preloaded with approximately 250 ads and sent a detailed log of the user's browsing activity to Brave for the short-term purpose of testing this functionality. In June 2018, Brave released a pay-to-surf test-version of the browser. On 20 January 2016, Brave Software launched the first version of Brave with ad-blocking capabilities and announced plans for an ad platform that uses 'browser-side anonymous targeting'. On, CEO Brendan Eich and CTO Brian Bondy founded Brave Software. Īs of August 2022, Brave reported more than 57.42 million monthly active users, 19.3 million daily active users and a network of more than 1.6 million content creators. īrave Software's headquarters are in San Francisco, California.

Users can turn on optional ads that reward them for their attention in the form of Basic Attention Tokens (BAT), which can be used as a cryptocurrency or to make payments to registered websites and content creators. Brave is a privacy-focused browser, which automatically blocks some advertisements and website trackers in its default settings. X86-64, IA-32 (Windows only), ARM (Mac only)īrave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc.

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