Are you bootstrapping Brave, or are their investors involved?īrave recently completed a $2.5-million seed round from private investors. Developers can also check out our developer channel for further details. We just made the 0.7 release available to our developer community, so we expect to have the consumer version available later this year. When can we expect Brave to be readily available for download for regular end-users, for desktop and mobile? We aim to lift the domain of discourse of the Web standards above the low level of cookies, scripts, images, and iframes to talk about ads, impressions, (anonymous) confirmations, etc. With enough users, we can prove out our approach and standardize the anonymous protocols it uses. This includes micropayments built into Brave, which in due course could be connected to HTTP's 402 response code as that future standard emerges. In general, Brave aims to serve as the base of a user data platform that cleans up the web ecosystem, gives users a fair deal, and helps websites make better revenue than they get via tracking ads. Key goals include blocking all third-party tracking and replacing ads depending on such tracking enforcing HTTPS Everywhere and fighting fingerprinting used in lieu of or on top of tracking. What technical goals do you have for Brave that will set it apart from other web browsers? This type of innovation is necessary to put users first in ownership and control of their browsing data. As part of this, building our own browser lets us put our best foot forward on speed and deep integration of private ad-tech-extensions would face API and performance limits. Why Brave? Why not Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera, or Vivaldi?īrave is more than a browser, with a connected private cloud service with anonymous ads. One thing I will say is that in the small testing I did, Brave seemed to be a lean browser that uses minimal system resources and loads web content quickly, which is not something Firefox and Chrome always achieve.īut I wanted to learn more about this browser, and knowing Brendan from his time at Mozilla, I requested an interview.
In checking out the early version of the Brave browser, I found a very Alpha version of Brave, which lacks the visual polish and technical features of the browsers it hopes to push aside in order to save the open web. "Brendan is back to save the web," Andreas wrote, and I quickly went to the Brave GitHub repository and cloned the repository to build a binary from source so I could check out what Brave was all about. On January 20, Andreas Gal, former CTO of Mozilla, the company behind the popular open source browser Mozilla Firefox, announced in a blog post that former Mozilla CEO and Javascript founder Brendan Eich had launched a browser called Brave.
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