Brave (web browser)

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Brave
Developer(s)Brave Software, Inc.[1]
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Written inC, JavaScript, C++
TypeWeb Browser
LicenseMPL 2.0
Websitebrave.com

Brave is a free web browser made by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser, which is the browser Google Chrome is also based on.[2] The browser web blocks ads and website trackers. Brave has a Get paid to surf business model, where users get small amounts of a cryptocurrency called the Basic Attention Token for seeing ads inside the browser, which they can give to their favorite authors.

As of 2019, Brave has been created for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. It includes 5 search engines, including duckduckgo as the main.

References[change | change source]

  1. "Company Overview of Brave Software Inc". Bloomberg. 4 April 2018. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  2. Cimpanu, Catalin. "Brave browser moves to Chromium codebase, now supports Chrome extensions". ZDNet. Retrieved 2019-02-10.