Announcement: Brave selected as the official browser for the 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship (Soccer tournament) in South Korea

Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced that the Brave browser was selected as the official browser for the 2019 E-1 Football (Soccer) Championship, hosted by the East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) in South Korea from December 10th to 18th.



During the matches, a Brave LED board will be displayed in the stadium and special content linked to this event will be provided on the E-1 official page. Under the concept of “INNOVATION & UNITY”, EAFF is expanding its outreach from East Asia to the world. As part of this effort, Brave and EAFF formed a partnership and are launching a co-marketing campaign.



Read the full post here: https://brave.com/brave-browser-selected-as-an-official-browser-for-the-2019-eaff-e-1-football-championship-in-south-korea/

Video: Luke Mulks (Director of Business Development at Brave) on the Hashoshi show!

About Hashoshi: “Welcome, #HashNation! 🚀 let’s cut through the hype and learn about blockchain, cryptocurrency, & distributed technology; I will help you build your knowledge, boost your cryptocurrency gains and join the movement towards our decentralized, distributed future!”

Video: Brave’s Story with Jonathan Sampson (ETH Waterloo, November 8-10, 2019)

Watch as Jonathan Sampson, Senior Developer Relations at Brave, tells Brave’s story from his perspective.

Meetup: BATcafe 24.0 in Bekasi, Indonesia (December 19, 2019):

“BATcafe is BAT Indonesia monthly meetup for current and new users. There will be a presentation about Basic Attention Token, with the update news from the projects and also from Brave Browser, and Q&A session with a total duration > 120 minutes.” Hosted by BAT Indonesia.



Confirm your attendance here: https://forum.batcommunity.org/t/acara-komunitas-desember-2019/4953

Client Updates

Beta Channel v1.2.25

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.2.25

Dev Channel v1.3.61

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.3.61

Release Channel v1.1.20

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.1.20

Brave Team Tweets

Fixes in release pipeline now, more data types in new year. Cc: @jsecretan — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) December 8, 2019 Sync fixes are coming, and more things will be synced in the new year.

You mean as Muon-based Brave had? I miss those too. Maybe in new year. — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) December 10, 2019 Multi-page tabs? Maybe?

For example, see https://t.co/a0HsSxHYx9. Google’s vast RTB system, and the IAB ad system, are now under investigation for infringing the GDPR as a result of our evidence. We are opposing tracking through software and through the law. — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) December 6, 2019 Someone on Twitter said Google should be sued. No problem. Brave and many others have started lawsuits and investigations.

Ten. Point. Four. Million. That's more people than are in New York City. It's more than the populations of Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston COMBINED. Brave is a burgeoning force that will change multiple industries. How incredibly encouraging! Thank you all for helping us grow. — Sampson (@BraveSampson) December 6, 2019 10.4 Million users is equal to…

I may be jumping the gun here, but it's starting to feel like we're about to hit the next iteration in the macro privacy game, and it's about to get lit. 🔥



It's a game of inches, but starting to see the questions being asked that we've been waiting for. https://t.co/b7Od026SXI — Luke Mulks | lukemulks.eth (@lukemulks) December 9, 2019 Luke’s got a feelin’…

That's definitely a model we'd love to make possible in the not too distant future. It makes sense for people to purchase transient access to certain resources. BAT seems poised to offer that liberty 🙂 — Sampson (@BraveSampson) December 13, 2019 Micropayments instead of subscriptions?

We were running across NYC all week. Times are a changin. https://t.co/2QgBFJuYDV — Luke Mulks | lukemulks.eth (@lukemulks) December 13, 2019 Lots happening in NYC. And lots of people are listening to what Brave has to offer.

BAT/Brave in the News

GritDaily: Brave Browser Promises a Brave New Cyberworld with Next-Gen Launch

If you use Google Chrome, then every Web page you read, including this one, is added to a database containing a list of your browser habits. Alphabet, Google’s holding company, is able to track everything you do online through your browser. It knows your interests. It has figured out your tastes in music. It can guess your political opinions.

No one has come up with a better model. The principle that companies quietly take our private information and deliver Internet access for free but get paid by advertisers has worked. No one has changed it. Until now.

Protonmail: These browsers actually protect your privacy

Your web browser is the vehicle that carries you around the Internet to your desired websites. As such, it knows precisely what sites you have visited, how long you spent browsing them, and what you clicked on (or almost clicked on). Anyone who has access to your web browser can have a window into your income, your political leanings, and even your sexual preferences.



This is why it’s so important to only use browsers you know will protect and improve your internet privacy. In this article, we explain how browsers capture so much information and which web browsers in 2019 are best at keeping your browsing history safe from data-hungry tech companies and advertisers.

News You Should Know

TechCrunch: Over 750,000 applications for US birth certificate copies exposed online

An online company that allows users to obtain a copy of their birth and death certificates from U.S. state governments has exposed a massive cache of applications — including their personal information.



More than 752,000 applications for copies of birth certificates were found on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage bucket. (The bucket also had 90,400 death certificate applications, but these could not be accessed or downloaded.

Gizmodo: Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon’s Sprawling Home Surveillance Network

A Gizmodo investigation, which began last month and ultimately revealed the potential locations of up to tens of thousands of Ring cameras, has cast new doubt on the effectiveness of the company’s privacy safeguards. It further offers one of the most “striking” and “disturbing” glimpses yet, privacy experts said, of Amazon’s privately run, omni-surveillance shroud that’s enveloping U.S. cities.



Read the full text here: https://gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-su-1840312279

Roaring Fans

Are you set up as a Creator with @brave? If not, you should be — sethdsimmons (@sethdsimmons) December 12, 2019

Viva la Revolución! Brave is the browser we always wanted — Ian Serra (@That_Lone_Wolf_) December 11, 2019

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