Brave browser The fastest and most secure browser for smart phones

Brave browser The fastest and most secure browser for smart phones

Brave: Browse faster and safer while ticking off advertisers

The privacy-focused browser uses cryptocurrency to challenge ad-tracking.

A long period of beta incubation has come to an end with the discharge of Brave 1.0, the privacy-focused speeder of a browser that's been turning heads with its cavalier approach to ad-blocking and its promises of cryptocurrency payouts. The open-source of Javascript creator now touts quite 8 million users worldwide, it will automatically block trackers and invasive ads to improve speed, battery life, and privacy.

what makes it stand out from the browser pack for us?

The 'security vs. speed' tradeoff is over

Brave is the fastest browser I've used this year on any OS , for both smart phones and desktop. Memory usage by the browser is way below most others, while website loading is way faster (Brave claims a 3-6x faster-browsing experience than others on the market). With less strain on resources comes less strain on your device's battery life also .

The Secret of Brave's speed is its suite of privacy and security features.While ad-blocking and antitracking plugins are available for Firefox and Chrome, Brave is made to run these features by default.

Every time you open a new tab, Brave offers you an updated tally of time saved and annoyances blocked.

One of the most pervasive online privacy concerns is "fingerprinting," an especially sneaky method that advertisers use to track your activity cross-site, letting them build a uniquely identifiable profile of you without using cookies. Most browsers are now beginning to fight back against this sort of tracking, and Brave is not any exception. Along with fingerprinting, Brave's Shields feature blocks a good swath of tracking cookies and invasive ads.

Headed to Amazon for a shopping spree? Brave can block an array of site cross-trackers.

The problem with some browser security features is that they can interfere with a website to such a degree that you can't access the content you came to the site for. For security-minded users, that means we may have to go through an often obnoxious process of disabling each of our security plugins or onboard features, one at a time until we find out which one is causing the hiccup.

The best part of Brave's privacy suite is that it eliminates this game of broken website whack-a-mole, and makes it faster and less annoying to have a secure browsing experience. A single click on the Brave icon on your address bar allows you to ascertain alittle menu with simplified toggles that underlie the extensive, customizable security panel in the browser's settings pages.

Since it's built on Chromium -- the same engine that powers Google Chrome -- you can beef up privacy by adding your choice of extensions to Brave just as easily, and via the same process, as you would Chrome. Being built on Chromium doesn't mean Brave is putting your data back in Google's pocket, however.

Brave Obtains a garland here for stripping Google-specific code out of its own Chromium engine. In simpler terms, it goes beyond blocking outside data from getting in and also blocks inside data from getting out. This means you'll use Brave without fear about background functions quietly whispering your browsing history to Google.

BAT-very power

Which brings us to the feature offered by Brave that attempts to strike a balance between user privacy from advertising trackers and therefore the ad-based revenue that websites believe..

Brave swaps ads on an internet site with ads of its own, shown as OS notifications, that do not track you. If you view what Brave calls its "privacy-respecting ads" or engage with them, you are not generating revenue for a publisher as you normally would with other browsers. Instead, you earn Brave's basic attention tokens (BAT), a sort of cryptocurrency which will become real dollars.

Every month you git 70% of the BAT revenue that advertisers spend on the ads you see, while Brave receives the remaining 30%. As the BAT stacks up in your account, you'll contribute to websites you're keen on , and tip users on Twitter, Github, YouTube, and other sites..

According to Brave, a typical user earns around $5 a month, but that this figure will vary based on region and "other factors." When CNET test-drove Brave's BAT feature earlier this year, the end total in our reporter's account after a good bout of tooling around was around $27, though not all of that was from viewing ads.

Previously, Brave struggled to urge its currency to cross the edge from crypto to cash. That's possible now through the cryptocurrency exchange Uphold, and Brave said by early next year it'll also be possible for users to redeem BAT for subscriptions, gift cards, discounts, and more.

But from the attitude of a well-meaning internet denizen uninterested with corporate surveillance, Brave's BAT currency model may be a bargain worth striking. And many advertisers have signed up for ad campaigns on Brave, though a number of that's still just dipping their toes within the water.

The browser will need more users, however, to really build out its new ad system: While 8 million people may be a good start, it'll still got to compete with Google Chrome's billion-plus users and Mozilla Firefox's 250 million-plus users.