

You can allow ads and trackers in the preferences panel. Users can also credit publishers that they like with the tokens.Īds and trackers are blocked by default. It rewards users for this with an Ethereum blockchain-based token called the Basic Attention Token (BAT). It then gives users the option to receive ads by signalling basic information about their intentions to advertisers, but only with user permission. Rather than allowing advertisers to track its users, the browser blocks ad trackers and instead leaves users’ browsing data encrypted on their machines. Instead of just serving up user browsing data to advertisers, its developers designed it to put control in the users’ hands. Launched in 2016, Brave is a browser that stakes its business model on user privacy.

Privacy-conscious web browser company Brave was busy trying to correct the record this week after someone posted what looked like a whitelist in its code allowing its browser to communicate with Facebook from third-party websites.
