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Former Firefox head honcho takes a Brave stance

20 Jan 2016 at 20:05, Kieren McCarthy

 

A new open-source browser that blocks ads and tracking code and so promises to "fix the Web" by offering a faster, privacy-respecting experience has been released.

 

The Brave browser is the brainchild of former Mozilla (Firefox) CEO and JavaScript inventor Brendan Eich, and version 0.7 is now available to developers on GitHub.

 

Brave is built on top of open-source browser Chromium – which Google uses as the foundation for its Chrome browser – and claims to be between 1.5 and 4 times faster than competitors by stripping out not just ads, but also all the tracking code that lives in abundance on most ad-supported websites.

 

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Here's some irony for you.  This is the Privacy Badger report for the Brave site itself.  I had to disable PB to get the popup for beta signup to work:

Ironic indeed.! :D

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