The Brave Web Browser: Privacy-Centric Cryptobrowserby@poutintsev
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The Brave Web Browser: Privacy-Centric Cryptobrowser

by Filip Poutintsev5mJanuary 14th, 2021
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Brave is a free and open-source web browser based on Chrome/Chromium (a more lightweight version of Chrome) that was developed by Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript and former CEO of Mozilla) Brave has a crypto mining blocker built-in by default – offering protection against all sorts of crypto mining malware. Brave also introduced its own crypto-token revolving around the users’ attention economy and allows users to contribute Brave’s BAT (Basic Attention Token) to content creators and web sites. Brave launched its stable 1.0 release on 13 November 2019, while already having some 8.7 million monthly active users.

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