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



Brave Rewards (opt-in BAT tipping) now live for millions of users on Android!

To celebrate this new release, Brave will be allocating 100,000 BAT grants (each grant is the BAT equivalent of approximately $5) to our Android users. Grants can be received by clicking on the “accept” button in Brave Rewards.



Brave Rewards is now available in the latest version of Brave for Android (1.0.91). To download it on your device, please visit the Google Play Store.



Read the full text here.

BLOG: “A worrying adtech exemption to California’s new privacy law”

Brave writes to the California Senate Judiciary Committee, opposing a new adtech exemption in the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). Brave also co-signs today’s letter from 28 technology companies supporting the Privacy For All amendment to fix loopholes in the CCPA.



Read the full post:https://brave.com/brave-ccpa-april-2019/

ARTICLE: “Back to Advertising Basics with Web3 Powered by Blockchain” on AdMonsters by Luke Mulks (BAT Team)

The explosion in the blockchain-based marketing landscape over the past 18 months has brought an interesting dynamic to the already complex world of digital advertising. There has been a lot of hype, a lot of hot air, a lot of learning, and a few solutions showing early promise around this new and emerging technology.



Read the full article here: https://www.admonsters.com/web3-advertising-basics-blockchain/

COMMUNITY: Join us on April 24, 2019, for 24 Hours of BAT, a global meetups event for BAT & Brave fans around the world!

On Wednesday, April 24, 2019, volunteers from around the world will hold BAT & Brave meetups in their region for 24 Hours of BAT, a global initiative to draw attention, interest, and adoption to Basic Attention Token and Brave. Scroll down to find one in your area!

The goal is to create a BAT & Brave wave—to take social media by storm, flooding it with photos and videos of BAT fans from around the world who’ve come together to learn, teach and celebrate the ways in which BAT & Brave are revolutionizing the web.



Check out the full post to find out if there’s a meetup happening near you!:

BROWSER: Check out the new, totally redesigned Settings panel in Brave!

Featured Creators



Client Updates

Beta Channel v0.63.45

Dev Channel v0.64.56

Brave Team Tweets

Brave Rewards is now live in today's version of the @brave browser for Android (1.0.91). To celebrate, there are 100,000 @AttentionToken grants available for users so they can start rewarding their favorite content creators! https://t.co/h6iSMi3SaG — BasicAttentionToken (@AttentionToken) April 17, 2019 Brave Rewards is live on Android!

Great to see @internetarchive receive "more than 9k Brave Attention Tokens (BAT) – the equivalent of $2500 USD! Every little bit makes a big difference." https://t.co/3FBLhUvnBb — BasicAttentionToken (@AttentionToken) April 15, 2019 The Internet Archive has earned the equivalent of $2500 USD in BAT!



“It’s time to panic over …” is funny in context. It is not time to panic over privacy, it is time to take steps on your own. @brave — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) April 16, 2019 It’s time to take your own steps with privacy.



VPN coming – not free because that means scraping or ad-infecting or worse. — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) April 18, 2019 Brave VPN coming…

Just watched @johnnyryan's talk at the European Data Protection Supervisor's 2019 conference on disinformation. Seven minutes in, get ready to be creeped out.



See the video here: https://t.co/JswOeGhzVW



This is why you need privacy. This is why you need @brave. pic.twitter.com/IItDFCeajQ — Dan Murphy (@heydanmurphy) April 12, 2019 Ready to be creeped out? Check out this video by Brave’s Johnny Ryan.

Check out how easy it is to tip and support the @latimes with @AttentionToken directly in @brave on #Android. You can even setup monthly tipping, directly from the browser.



Privacy ✔

Security ✔

Revenue for publishers ✔

Brave ✔ 💯$BAT pic.twitter.com/W4PjB9D5qJ — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) April 12, 2019 Quick video on how to tip and support sites!

I wrote an op-ed for @AdMonsters on how #web3 provides an opportunity for #advertisers and #marketers to get back to basics. https://t.co/JuUyyLMfIr

Excited to help deliver on that promise with @brave and @AttentionToken $BAT — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) April 18, 2019 Luke writes an Op-Ed (see tweet for the article!)

Here is Senate Bill 753. It proposes an exception in the CCPA for serving and auditing of ads. https://t.co/YRe0IUcWu1 pic.twitter.com/ytIrcoibeK — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) April 16, 2019 Johnny outlines Senate Bill 753, which proposes exceptions for servicing and auditing of ads. Read his series of tweets starting here

We at @Brave co-signed a letter from 24 tech companies in support of Privacy For All, an amendment to fix loopholes in the #CCPA #privacyforall https://t.co/DecFWARvz2 — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) April 16, 2019 Brave co-signs Privacy for All

I do not believe it is acceptable to require that I accept this policy (which I have read in detail) before letting the user access the features that should be available at first use.

I have returned the product. — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) April 18, 2019 Johnny returns a keyboard… due to privacy.

BAT/Brave in the News

The web pioneer taking on Google with a private browser and a loyalty club

Brendan Eich’s Brave browser is designed to make browsing faster and more private—and though it blocks ads, it has a plan for paying publishers.



Read the full text here:https://www.fastcompany.com/90332739/this-web-pioneer-is-taking-on-google-with-a-privacy-first-browser



News You Should Know

Ecma Fellow awards honoured Brendan Eich and Allen Wirfs-Brock for their major contributions to the ECMAScript (JavaScript) standard. This first presentation of the Fellow awards recognizes individuals who have served Ecma for a long time in an exceptionally outstanding fashion. — Ecma International (@EcmaInternatio1) April 15, 2019

Facebook says it ‘unintentionally uploaded’ 1.5 million people’s email contacts without their consent

Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts.



Since May 2016, the social-networking company has collected the contact lists of 1.5 million users new to the social network, Business Insider can reveal. The Silicon Valley company said the contact data was “unintentionally uploaded to Facebook,” and it is now deleting them.



Read the full text here: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uploaded-1-5-million-users-email-contacts-without-permission-2019-4

Back to Advertising Basics with Web3 Powered by Blockchain

The explosion in the blockchain-based marketing landscape over the past 18 months has brought an interesting dynamic to the already complex world of digital advertising. There has been a lot of hype, a lot of hot air, a lot of learning, and a few solutions showing early promise around this new and emerging technology. Blockchain-based advertising solutions have presented bold visions that aim to prove that they can disintermediate, bring transparency to the supply chain, reduce fraud, and bring new opportunities to market. With much focus on the immediate problems that this technology aims to remedy, there’s a more fundamental shift taking place in the evolution of the web toward a new, user-controlled web3 Internet.



Read the full text here: https://www.admonsters.com/web3-advertising-basics-blockchain/

Roaring Fans

Trying out the Brave browser. @brave

So far very nice. — Marc 'obiwan' Jacobi (@marcjacobi) April 18, 2019

Thank you @brave just received my #BAT grant. Much appreciated pic.twitter.com/d9d4wPAp9z — Lewis 2018 🐻 fighter still standing (@Nomadicbushido) April 18, 2019

Best browser ever — Josechangez (@josechangez) April 18, 2019

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