The decade’s rival to every popular browser like Google & Firefox, Brave Browser is now having an upgraded functionality. With the new update, it automatically redirects users to check out archived versions of pages that were earlier removed from the web.

With immediate effect from Feb 25, users of the Brave Browser can instantly access the archived content with missing pages on the internet by integrating Brave desktop browser with Wayback Machine.

Brave browser partners with the popular nonprofit digital library “The Internet Archive or Archive.org” to unlock the new feature. Brave browser version 1.4 is the first to receive the new feature and is only available for desktop brave users for now. The announcement comes through a Feb 25 blog post published by Archive.org.

A Web Portal to the Internet’s History

Internet Archive was founded back in 1996 to offer permanent access to historical digital data which now has archived over 900 billion URLs next to 400 billion web pages. It keeps adding hundreds of millions of pages each day. Because of native Wayback Machine integration on HTTP 404 responses in the Brave desktop browser, now users get the chance to read an archived page automatically instead of getting the traditional notice “Page not found”.

Now if a page is missing or has been taken down from the web, the browser will appear with the following notification:

Sorry that page is missing. Do you want to check if a saved version is available on the Wayback Machine?

As a result, Brave users now can access and go through the old version of the pages if they were archived on the Wayback Machine. Brave desktop browser is the first one to come up with such a nice update that activates built-in Wayback Machine support. On the other hand, popular browsers like Google Chrome, Safari, and Firefox have this feature in their browser extensions.

Brave Browser and the Internet Archive’s Partnership dates back to 2017

This isn’t the first collaboration of Brave with the Internet Archive to get the support of Wayback Machine. The year 2017 brings good news earlier for the Internet Archive that activates support for getting micropayments exclusively for Brave browser users by simply participating; allowing them to privately tip their favorite websites with cryptocurrency. During this period of time, the Internet Archive has collected over $2,500 in tips via Brave’s Basic Attention Token (BAT) by the end of April 2019.

To strengthen its close relationship with Brave, the Internet Archive expresses its positive response to its user privacy online. The team wrote:

We are grateful for their commitment to user privacy, helping advance alternatives to the current ad-supported Web, and focusing on improving the overall web browsing experience. We applaud Brave’s leadership in these efforts and look forward to working with them on other ways to help make the web more useful and reliable.

The news comes amid a new comparative study proving that Brave Browser is the best browsing solution among six popular browsers including Google, Safari, and Firefox when it comes to privacy. As user privacy online has been increasingly discussed, the Brave browser is apparently becoming more and more popular around the world. As reported previously, the browser saw its monthly active users almost double from 5.5 million in 2018 to 10.4 million in 2019. Per the earlier this week’s report, the browser wants the UK to use GDPR to crack down on Google.