Most websites run a mix of conventional display advertising, which is bought and sold in human-to-human advertising deals, and programmatic advertising. The whole premise of Brave, its raison d'être if you will, is that it automatically blocks programmatic online advertising and tracking cookies by default. Programmatic advertising refers to ads that are placed on websites via automated software. You can sign up to be a beta tester, which presumably grants you some pre-built binaries. If you want to try out Brave, you have to download and build the browser from a GitHub repo. At first glance, it looks like the Android version of Brave is based on Bubble. It looks like the iOS version, ironically enough, is based on Firefox for iOS, and the PC version is based on Chromium (an open-source project that somewhat parallels the development of Chrome). There's a Brave GitHub repository for Mac/Windows/Linux, iOS, and Android. Brave Software, the company behind the eponymous browser, will take a 15 percent cut of the ad revenue generated.īrave is an open-source Web browser. Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla and creator of the JavaScript programming language, has unveiled his latest project: Brave, a Web browser that blocks ads by default then replaces those blocked ads with its own ads.

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