Welcome to this week’s BAT Community Update! Thank you to Dan Murphy for his contributions!

OFFICIAL: Millions of users can now earn BAT for seeing ads on mobile with the release of Brave Ads (BAT) on Android! New Certified Vendor Program announced for BAT/Brave advertisers, plus Brave Ads advertiser testimonials

Two months after launching the first advertising platform built on privacy for its desktop users, Brave is making it available on its Android app. Users who consent to view privacy-preserving ads are rewarded with 70% of the ad revenue share in Basic Attention Tokens (BAT).

AMA: Upcoming Guest AMA with Alex Wilson and Patrick Duffy, Co-founders of The Giving Block (July 17, 2019)

The Giving Block helps nonprofits with all things cryptocurrency and blockchain. A technical solution for fundraising cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, education/training and developing meaningful partnerships with organizations in the space. For nonprofits who choose to go the extra mile, they advise on crypto fundraising strategies, and/or pair nonprofits up with partner crypto organizations, elevating fundraising and awareness outcomes. Ultimately, they help nonprofits build a crypto fundraising program, and a brand in the cryptocurrency industry.



Read Alex and Patrick’s bios, and submit early questions for their AMA here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/cbhuyr/upcoming_guest_ama_with_alex_wilson_and_patrick/

MEETUP: BAT Indonesia presents: A workshop for content creators! Learn how to become a verified Brave creator and accept BAT tips! (July 12, 2019)

Visit the official Meetup.com event page, here: https://www.meetup.com/BasicAttentionToken/events/262377627/

BAT Community Merch Giveaway Winners!

The winners for our BAT Community Daily Merch Giveaways for this week are:

Wednesday (Facebook): Kurt Homan

Thursday (Contributor Special): u/signalme

Click here to see pics of previous giveaway winners rocking their BAT/Brave merch!: https://imgur.com/a/lhF1G9I

Be sure to tune in to our social media channels every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday to participate in our daily merch giveaways for your chance to win!

Featured Creators

SyLoGum on Twitch

Hi! I’m Sylvia, but you can call me SyLo!



You can usually catch me playing video games or lifting.



I’m a competitive powerlifter in the USPA/IPL and have been competing for about 5.5 years now.



Although I do main IRL here on Twitch, I also love to play video games. So whenever I’m not training, you can find me playing Fortnite!



Stop in and chat if you’d like to know more 🙂



BI: sylogum@gmail.com



Follow SyLoGum on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/sylogum

MuZic King on Twitter

MuZic King is a rap artist, music producer, DJ and creative from Los Angeles, California.



Follow MuZic King here: https://twitter.com/iAmMuzicKing

Client Updates

Dev Channel v0.68.100

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.68.100

Beta Channel v0.67.108

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.67.108

Brave Team Tweets

Brave Ads earnings for June are now available for Desktop users who opted in. To claim your tokens, open the ☰ menu and select Brave Rewards. Then follow the on-screen instructions to claim your tokens. More supported regions coming soon! https://t.co/lblY1YHhii — BasicAttentionToken (@AttentionToken) July 5, 2019

Ads took over. More on this soon. — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) July 7, 2019 More on token grants soon.

Conventional adtech is a front page risk. It’s time for reform. pic.twitter.com/pqzGuWRgqk — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) July 8, 2019 Adtech is getting a bit more press these days…

Amazon needs to chill. https://t.co/Zl3M2T7pUG — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) July 10, 2019 Amazon is close to becoming the default infrastructure of home social care. Is this good? Luke weighs in.

I think the power to ban processing, which DPAs now have, is far more important that the power to fine. — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) July 9, 2019 What will fining do? Johnny offers a potential solution

Here are my slides https://t.co/DqIHGBX5vC — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) July 5, 2019 Want to see Johnny’s slides from IViR (Instituut voor Informatierecht / Institute for Information Law)?

Agree we need fast progress, good news is @codebycoffee focusing on sync.



Client-side encryption is not an issue — we would not go faster storing cleartext. I want to dissuade anyone blaming secret key encryption.



I expect the new sync open source plan in next couple of weeks. — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) July 11, 2019 New sync open source plan soon.

iOS is next in line! — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) July 11, 2019 Brave Rewards for iOS is coming!

It’s not your data.

It’s you. — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) July 12, 2019 Hmmm… Great point…

And there is no control over who these parties pass the data on to once they receive it. — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) July 11, 2019 Did you know? Once an adtech company gets your data, you have no control.

BAT/Brave in the News

Brave browser now can show its privacy-first ads on Android, too

Browser startup Brave now can show its privacy-first ads on Android, not just personal computers. The company’s browser blocks websites’ ads and trackers by default, but if you opt in to see Brave-supplied ads instead, you’ll get 70 percent of the resulting revenue.



With most of Brave’s users on smartphones, the Android move is a significant expansion of Brave’s advertising ambitions.



Read the full text here: https://www.cnet.com/news/brave-browser-now-can-show-its-privacy-first-ads-on-android-too/

Instead of being tracked, get paid to see online ads

Many of us are upset about the level of tracking that Amazon, Google and Facebook engage in as we use their websites. If you’re as concerned as I am, here’s a fun weekend project for you — switch internet browsers. And potentially make a few dollars for your efforts.



Most of us use Google’s Chrome, which as the Washington Post’s Geoffrey Fowler recently reported, is such a data hungry browser, he found 11,000 trackers from his Chrome surfing in just a week. I downloaded the alternative Brave browser Friday, which is aimed at those of us who aren’t cool with having our privacy invaded. In just three hours of using it, Brave told me that 10 trackers had been blocked, along with 887 ads.



Read the full text here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/07/06/instead-google-tracking-us-brave-browser-pays-us-watch-ads/1660842001/

It’s time you ditched Chrome for a privacy-first web browser

Google’s business is data collection. Here are the best Chrome alternatives for Android, iOS, Windows and Mac that will protect your privacy



Read the full text here: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-privacy-browsers-and-chrome-alternatives

News You Should Know

Google Promising Real-Time Censorship

Google has changed their algorithm so that it actively suppresses “misinformation” when “bad events” are taking place. This is pretty big news if you’re interested in free speech or the free flow of information. Nobody in the media treated it that way.



In fact, you probably didn’t see it at all. Almost no papers covered it – and the major one that did, The Guardian, buried back in the “science and technology” section.

Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website!

A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission. The flaw potentially exposes up to 750,000 companies around the world that use Zoom to conduct day-to-day business.



Read the full text here: https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5

Bundeskartellamt has published the English version of the #Facebook-decision prohibiting Facebook from combining user data from different sources.

Check it out here: https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidung/EN/Entscheidungen/Missbrauchsaufsicht/2019/B6-22-16.html?nn=3591568

Roaring Fans

I never knew how many ads I get shown. This is a little over one months time. Thanks @brave. pic.twitter.com/C2KMCOZFZW — Engineer Man (@_EngineerMan) July 6, 2019

Woot! Earning $BAT is fun because I use the earnings to tip @brave publishers. ☕️😃 pic.twitter.com/lQS069KLZV — Crypto Coffee ☕ [Espresso Maximalist] (@Kristen_Colwell) July 5, 2019

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