Announcement: Sponsored Images now available on all Brave platforms, rewarding users who opt into Brave Rewards with 70 percent of the ad revenue!

Brave users will notice that their new tab page features a Sponsored Image, which is shown in every fourth new tab and alternates with Brave’s regular background images for new tabs. Sponsored Images reward Brave users with 70% of the ad revenue when they opt into Brave Rewards. Sponsored Images give select advertisers the ability to place a branded image and logo in the tab page, reaching the full 100% of Brave’s audience of over 11 million monthly active users. We’re thrilled to announce that our launch partner BlockFi is the advertiser for this current campaign, which will run for ten days.



BlockFi is a financial services company focused on products and services designed specifically for cryptocurrencies, such as an interest account allowing users to earn compound interest on their bitcoin and other crypto assets. The BlockFi campaign will be seen by Brave users in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.



Read the full post here: https://brave.com/sponsored-images-now-available-on-all-brave-platforms/

HTC Exodus official Twitter: “Ad-blocking web browser, @brave is recommended and pre-installed in #HTCExodus. It’s known for offering BAT Token (Basic Attention Token, a share of ad revenue) if users opt-in to seeing ads.”

We are beyond thrilled that Brave now comes pre-installed on the HTC Exodus!



Read the tweet here.

Community: “I work as a PC administrator, and because of that I was able to spread love for Brave. For the last 3 months, I’ve been able to get more than 50 monthly active users. I live in small town, so I am pretty proud of my achievement“

We think this is a major achievement! Thank you for the support. <3

Fan Art: On the market for new mobile wallpaper or lock-screen artwork? A lovely user from Reddit created this funky BAT wallpaper!

Free for you to use & enjoy! Thanks u/coinreturn1!

Fan Art: “I made this Basic attention x Kirby crossover in a series I’m doing where I turn kirby into cryptos”

“I’ve done I think 7 or 8 crytpo x kirbys, with five finished currently. It’s been really fun and BAT was the first one I finished. The other finished crossovers are xrp, Eth, bsv and btc. Verified creator so if you download and like the image you can always do what Brave/Bat is designed to do lol, not required of course. Would be cool to see this all over. If anyone wants to share this around that’d be cool.”

Featured Creators (in partnership with Everipedia)

LordDraconical on YouTube

Drac’s videos on Nerf toy gun reviews and epic trick shots have racked him up over 725,000 subscribers on Youtube. We can’t get “anerf”!



Check out LordDraconical’s Everipedia entry: https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/lorddraconical



Subscribe to LordDraconical on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/LordDraconical

Javi Ayul on YouTuber

Javi’s musical talent has won over 2,000,000 subscribers on YouTube so far, and he is also a Bitcoin enthusiast!



Read Javi’s entry on Everipedia here: https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/javi-ayul



Check out his channel & subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/user/thekcookiesbr/featured

Client Updates

Beta Channel v1.4.86

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.4.86

Dev Channel v1.5.90

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.5.90

Release Channel v1.3.115

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.3.115

Release notes:

Fixed several crashes and stability issues by temporarily disabling sync. (#7781)

Brave Team Tweets

Sponsored Images are now live on all @brave browsers, and they reward Brave users with 70% of the ad revenue when they opt into Brave Rewards. Check out the current campaign with our launch partner @TheRealBlockFi!https://t.co/OYleVsJuAd — BasicAttentionToken (@AttentionToken) February 12, 2020 Sponsored images are here… And BlockFi is showing now!

Ah, but the beauty of Brave is that you didn't in fact send any signals 😉 — Sampson (@BraveSampson) February 13, 2020 Brave doesn’t collect intent signals. It saves them locally, on your device.

You trained your local agent. — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) February 13, 2020

Clean, fast mobile browsing with @Brave, + @Attentiontoken Rewards.



You can have privacy by default with your browser today. Free, and open source.



It's time to be included in the value exchange, as opposed to being a host for the harvest. pic.twitter.com/6CPpwHdtGh — Luke Mulks | lukemulks.eth (@lukemulks) February 8, 2020 Don’t be harvested!

💯 @brave + @AttentionToken

✔Token utility in product in production since Oct 2017

✔+300K verified creators.

✔1st global private ad and rewards platform, available on all platforms.



All of the chatter is like watching people duke it out over Friendster v MySpace. $bat https://t.co/LiJ5Fs54Iv — Luke Mulks | lukemulks.eth (@lukemulks) February 11, 2020 Basic Attention Token — Established 2017. It’s been around almost 3 years now.

Watch as the international campaigns increase as well over the next few days. 🙂



To all that have been wanting to see ads in regions that have only been recently supported, you'll be seeing @Brave Ads very soon, and @AttentionToken. $BAT https://t.co/aFBlMZ9Wg9 — Luke Mulks | lukemulks.eth (@lukemulks) February 13, 2020 International ads are ramping up.

Tracking industry body also officially doesn't bother to research that publishers & creators have been earning @AttentionToken in @brave since Oct 2017, and that Brave Ads have been available and rewarding users with $BAT since April 2019.



1 visit to: https://t.co/P4kicTVpUQ https://t.co/zTO8mjqI3L — Luke Mulks | lukemulks.eth (@lukemulks) February 13, 2020 IAB bashes us but misses some key points.

10 years after its first publication, my ‘A History of the Internet and the Digital Future’ has just been published in Turkish by @Tubitak

Mutlu okuma! (Happy reading!) https://t.co/9azOjjrXNd pic.twitter.com/06ZMD9oDBf — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) February 10, 2020 Did you know Johnny Ryan had a book? And now, it’s published in Turkish!

Oh, neat! @SpinninRecords is now advertising with @brave. Just got an ad for https://t.co/JGRrfq9U9L, and have since listened to it about 4 times. Looks like Brave users are making their mark in the comments too 😂 — Sampson (@BraveSampson) February 12, 2020 Looking for some new music? Sampson found some!

Woah! The slideshare of our report on data collection from UK council websites has been viewed 27,641 times in one week. @Brave https://t.co/lXkK7vp1Vz pic.twitter.com/G6j1DURb10 — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) February 10, 2020 There seems to be a bit of interest on Brave’s investigation on UK council websites.

That's a great point; we're earning WHILE protecting our private data. Brave is magic 🙂 — Sampson (@BraveSampson) February 12, 2020 Brave is the David Blane of browsers.

Go into about:rewards, and you'll see a 7-Day Ads History link at the bottom-right of the Ads panel. Click that, and you'll see more granular controls for saying what you like and don't like. — Sampson (@BraveSampson) February 12, 2020 Find ads you like or don’t like? Control ‘em!

Sponsored Images are now live on all Brave platforms, and they reward Brave users with 70% of the ad revenue when they opt into Brave Rewards. Check out the current campaign with our launch partner @TheRealBlockFi! https://t.co/bZvQOvjwwk — Brave Software (@brave) February 12, 2020 Sponsored Images are live on all platforms!

Users who opt into Brave Rewards will see earnings from Sponsored Images included in their ad statements at the end of each month. Earnings from Sponsored Images are not included in Brave Rewards daily estimated ad earnings yet. — Brave Software (@brave) February 12, 2020 And, you can be paid to see these sponsored images.

The @IAB browser privacy awards: @Brave wins gold medal. "Least cooperative"!

Safari wins silver. "Almost as uncooperative".

Firefox wins bronze. "Neutral until August 2018 … changed to become relatively uncooperative".

Chrome not competing until 2022. pic.twitter.com/sboMoCHaQ4 — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) February 12, 2020 Brave was voted “Least cooperative” by the IAB. Thanks! We’re proud of not tracking users and sharing data with a bunch of creepy data brokers. Let’s go for gold next year too!

On the market for new mobile wallpaper or lock-screen artwork? A lovely user from Reddit created this funky BAT wallpaper: https://t.co/Swud3KqwCC



Free for you to enjoy! $BAT #fanart



By u/Coinreturn1 (Reddit). Go show them some love: https://t.co/53Qi1PoykM pic.twitter.com/PKUowR12fa — BAT Community (@BAT_Community) February 13, 2020 Get some new BAT-inspired wallpaper!

BAT/Brave in the News

The Register: Google’s second stab at preserving both privacy and ad revenue draws fire

While TURTLEDOVE may need further work before the web community accepts it, the Brave browser already has a privacy-preserving client-side ad system in place.



In his own Twitter thread on TURTLEDOVE, Peter Snyder, privacy researcher at Brave Software, elaborated on some of the potential problems with Google’s approach.



Read the full text here: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/10/googles_second_stab_at_preserving_both_privacy_and_ad_revenue_raises_concerns/

News You Should Know

Daniel Miessler: The Dark Web Has Nothing on Data Brokers

But for me, and most of the other security professionals I know, the Dark Web is insignificant compared to its corporate counterparts. There are thousands of companies that legally, professionally, and efficiently collect, organize, and sell your data—and they do so as completely legal businesses.



Read the full text here: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-dark-web-has-nothing-on-data-brokers/

Vice: How Big Companies Spy on Your Emails

The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users’ email inboxes and sells products based off that information to clients in the finance, travel, and e-Commerce sectors. The contents of Edison users’ inboxes are of particular interest to companies who can buy the data to make better investment decisions, according to a J.P. Morgan document obtained by Motherboard.



Read the full text here: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/pkekmb/free-email-apps-spying-on-you-edison-slice-cleanfox

Roaring Fans

Thanks @brave for being the best browser for watching anime online — Lordkrust (@lordkrust) February 13, 2020

From Reddit: