“ a cynical proposal adopting just enough of the language and colors of the privacy community to keep regulators at bay, while in practice benefitting Google’s monopoly, all to the detriment of the Web at large,” it said. In January 2022, the company specifically dismissed (opens in new tab) Google’s Privacy Sandbox as a power play designed to cement the tech giant’s stranglehold on the web, in part because of its use of Google’s own servers and promotion of the “AppStore-ification” of the internet. Brave Software Were reinventing the browser as a user-first platform for speed, privacy, better ads, and beyond 827 followers San Francisco Overview Repositories Projects Packages People Pinned brave-browser Public Next generation Brave browser for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows. On the other hand, cookie banners highlight how much worse the Web will get if Google (and others) succeed in weakening users’ ability to block such annoyances,” Brave said in its announcement (opens in new tab).īrave has long warned that these new initiatives are actually on course to reduce user privacy online, by decreasing the effectiveness of existing ad blocking extensions (opens in new tab) and reducing the choice users have over their web browser. On the one hand, that’s great: It means privacy-protecting Web tools like Brave can act on behalf of users, and protect them from Web abuses and annoyances.

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