We shipped Brave Origin, with shields + baseline Brave speed but otherwise minimum browser UX: brave.com/origin (on the brave.com/premium products page). It's another way to support us directly, a fair play _quid pro quo_, because TANSTAAFL (econlib.org/library/Columns/…).

W T F mozilla.org/en-US/about/lega… "When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

Hi, I created JavaScript. You should block JS used for 3rd party trackers, fingerprinting, ads. You should definitely block the new cryptocurrency mining scripts. @Brave is one solution; we aim for always-on, tested ease of use. Other solutions exist, require more work of users.

Who owns your attention? Who owns your web browsing experience? Who gets paid? If not you, then you're "product". Time to get paid. @Brave

I miss the '90s.

Twitter search quickly confirms that the copy pasta bots are back, all yapping the same "we need a hard 6 month lockdown" chorus. Who is funding these bots? Cc: @elonmusk

People I used to follow, including Claire and Gray, justify this in the most non-responsive, factually wrong, and downright propagandistic ways. I conclude they are tools of the state, or of some larger power. Good riddance to them. Best wishes to Australians stuck under tyranny.

GitHub cofounder.

April 1, 2020, the WH presser and Q&A with Fauci at end. Pretty sinister to glibly shift from two weeks to flatten the curve, to lockdowns till shots. People who didn't see it as such were scared, complicit, or slaves to officials in their mentality.

Two signs @Brave is winning: 1. A UK SharkTank knock-off liked a copy of our pitch but w/o privacy in the pay user leg, and w/ gift cards not @attentiontoken‍s. They're now desperately trying to recruit from us (nope!). 2. Google lawyers subpoenaed us seeking antitrust relief.

Think of Windows with obsolete antivirus updates, except you have to pay for the updates with money and adverse events. Good business model for monopoly on PC operating system (your damaged immune system). Bill’s living in the 90s, in an idiotic biology-as-software cartoon world.

I know some find the WEF a joke, or a rich creeper club, but its plans get operationalized by the likes of BlackRock. It's no joke, not to farmers such as Jeroen Van Maanen or all of us "useless eaters" downstream of him & his fellows (this isn't confined to the Netherlands). /1

Dynamic at the speed of static. In 1997, I gave a short talk at a Java conf about JS-first apps that stream UX, based on early JS adopters’ wild demos; but little did i know where the general idea would go thanks to many talented people over 25 years. @vercel has built it.

Update coming late this week on another AI browser with vulnerabilities.

If you want to support @brave directly, buy Brave Premium Search at $3/month, for no search ads ever, and to help us go even harder against Big Tech. Thanks. account.brave.com/?intent=ch… search.brave.com/help/premiu…

How about @brave for YouTube without ads? Not sure why Proton is avoiding us lately (Vivaldi lol). I’m a ProtonMail user. Better not be a “US executive branch is being mean to Europe” reaction — that has nothing to do with us and is no reason to compromise on privacy-by-default.

It's quite possible, but then, no one should use that browser ever again. It's a huge betrayal if true.

After Repeated Failures, It’s Time To Permanently Dump Epidemic Models issuesinsights.com/2020/04/1…

From last year. Note banned account handles.

Always bet on JS.

brave.com/brave-search/ Brave Search is coming, waitlist signup for early testers and users who will help us make it sing, then alternative engine in Brave / SERP any browser can use. We will innovate on both sides, browser and service, to make search great. In time BAT ads too.

Yikes. May be in Japan this year, could be expert witness if it would help.

With @Brave you do not need an "extension that isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity" -- we block all trackers *by default*, including FB's. The real consistency+courage test would be to do the same to Google's trackers.

Brave is the default browser on HTC Exodus crypto-phone cnet.co/2C1lnLJ via @CNET

We don't censor. Brave Search has its own index, built incrementally (you can help by enabling Web Discovery Project in Search settings in Brave). We answer 92% of queries now, and fall back on Bing for 8%. This fallback will decline over time as we grow. Come help us get to 100!

github.com/mozilla/bedrock/c… Comments get spicier below the bottom of this screenshot.

I understand the sentiment deeply, but I do not agree that Apple is misbehaving by rejecting a bunch of new finger-printing API attack surface. "Build a reputation system linked to domain names" is easier said than done, and reputation must be contextual, multifaceted, revokable.

Even Netscape 4 a decade before Chrome let the user kill a JS iloop.

We are very happy to have @Brave as default browser & to be working with HTC on their Exodus phone:

Reminder: uBlock Origin still works in desktop @Brave — enable in settings. brave.com/blog/brave-shields…

Latest @Brave stats: 4M users (MAU), 21K verified channels, 26K publisher accounts. We will step on gas w/ brave-core + BAT on mobile this fall, get past 5M easily by EOY, >= 12M next, adding BAT ad deals to token grants, making good on the promise of @attentiontoken economics.

search.brave.com/ is in public beta, available to all and best in Brave, where you can pick it from alternative search engines in settings and make it default if you're game to help us get it ready to be promoted to default. Thanks.

"Brave went from 8.7 million monthly active users in October to 10.4 million MAU at the end of November, a 19% increase across all platforms... a doubling of Brave’s MAU in one year. Daily active users tripled in the last 12 months, to 3.3 million." brave.com/brave-passes-10m-m…

Where’s the ARBEIT MACHT FREI sign? They should cut to the chase.

Delete your account.

IIRC, 25 years ago, Wednesday, 10-May-1995, I'd just passed the midpoint of the "ten days in May" sprint to create JavaScript (codenamed "Mocha"). I was on the hook for a demo the following Monday, in order to show JS deep browser integration upside to Netscape (vs Java applets).

We are a fork, have been all along, the “reskinned” claim is complete nonsense. We won’t be shipping WEI support, just as we disable or otherwise nullify lots of other junk that Google puts into Chromium. github.com/brave/brave-brows… brave.com/privacy-updates.

John is an honest scientist. So of course he was smeared by conflict-of-interest-ridden fake-health scientists and policy wonks. His IFR calcs for Covid remain best in class: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. To this day, malicious actors lie about this. cc: @DrJBhattacharya @MaajidNawaz

Solana support in @Brave Wallet spotted. github.com/brave/brave-core/… (h/t @douglashdaniel @brianbondy @anthonnytseng et al.).

brave.com/premium lists all of our premium products: VPN, ad-free search, Leo browser-ai, Talk (no Zoom). Thus the simplest way to support @brave directly is to buy Brave Premium Search at $3/month, for no search ads ever, so we can go even harder against Big Tech. Thanks.

teddit.net/r/BATProject/comm… "Brave Browser is best for booking flights!" So if you evade targeting via trackers and fingerprinting, seems you can avoid be profiled as a fat chump to be gouged by 35% markup. I'll ask on Reddit whether the poster was logged into Chrome at the time.

@Brave passed 100M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in September 2025. DAU grew faster, past 42M. Blog post at brave.com/blog/100m-mau/. Brave Search at 1.66B Queries Per Month (QPM) annualizes to 19.49B QPY. Non-Brave-browser search users grew 10% in September (7.60% → 8.36%). 1/4

Brave's search index is 100% independent, no scraping. Beware up & comers who have been at it for on order of 1 year. Can't build a search engine to scale in that time, or without a daily driver app (aka browser, e.g., @Brave) sending queries and clicks. brave.com/search/api/

Brave Search beta has been available for a month now, and we're fixing bugs and adding features guided by our users' excellent feedback. Thanks for your support so far!

What an idiot. But also a war criminal, which is worse. He seems unaware that the vaccinated get Omicron, apparently at higher frequency than unvaxxed. But war criminal => jail or (Nuremberg) firing squad. Idiot can be ignored.

Facebook is secretly using your iPhone’s camera as you scroll your feed thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/… via @thenextweb

It’s almost as if, after corralling savings for retirement into stocks via liquidity pumping and then ZIRP, Yellen and ilk were now trying to destroy everyone not-rich, as part of some, idk, “great redo” or “better built back to the centrally planned future”. This won’t end well.

Whole lotta lab leaking going on. WIV BSL-4 (by bioMerieux) wasn’t used for CoV research, BSL-2/3 were. arxiv.org/abs/2104.01533 (h/t @Daoyu15).

Don't install snoopy native apps, use the vendor's mobile web site or app in Brave, installed with its own icon and Brave as its app runner (1st image). With @Brave, you can also avoid link clicks taking you to unwanted native apps (or the app store to install one; 2nd image).

Young woman cracking up in background is the best! Who are these young, based Dutch people talking back so well to old frauds like Rutte? (Fakt Cheka repellant: conspiracy theory not alleged here.)

Sneak peek: AI (=> leading-edge Machine Learning) is coming to Brave Search. In truth it was already there, but soon it'll appear in a trendy and often useful form: a summarizer, one that cites sources.

Great @brave teamwork delivered Private Tabs with Tor for beta-testing in latest release today. Please help test and let us know how to improve. Thanks. brave.com/tor-tabs-beta/

Yandex reports [1] that renaming their Chromium-based browser's GPU process name to "chrome.exe" decreases GPU process crashes 5x and memory consumption by 8% when AMD drivers are used. Why? Driver authors hardcode chrome.exe and optimize for Chrome.😠 [1] habr-com.translate.goog/ru/c…

Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved The World,' Dies At 77 n.pr/2y9BguA

Jack is becoming the hero we don’t deserve.

Medium censors another post, this one from MDs (@jbgeach et al.). Allegedly for denial of effectiveness of social distancing — which it explicitly endorses ("We can still practice good hand hygiene, wear masks in public, and continue social distancing for [elderly + high risk]”).

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end” —Kierkegaard Dore doing serious, needed work. Go Jimmy!

1/ We made a mistake, we're correcting: Brave default autocompletes verbatim "binance.us" in address bar to add an affiliate code. We are a Binance affiliate, we refer users via the opt-in trading widget on the new tab page, but autocomplete should not add any code.

Delete your antivirus.

February 2025 was another great month for @Brave growth of both desktop and mobile browsers. We hit 82.69M MAU; on our way to 100M users this year! We broke browser DAU and search QPD records set in January. Strong month-over-month growth of DAU & QPD, both on up-trends. 1/4

It's a mix, 50-50. If it were the most slop, it would have died. Standards work helped mostly, hurt in some ways. Modern JS in strict mode is "okay" for small projects. I'd use a type checker for big ones.

Always bet on JS.

Sneak peek: @Brave reduces total mobile browser battery consumption by 20-50%. Savings in both browser app and operating system (Android).

"Apps that aren’t on the list (for now): ... Browser: Brave, Tor"

Seems Big AI really want you in the little chat room with their agent, no links out — and if you talk back, you get your mouth erased. I don't know about you, but I want the Open Web via a browser that doesn't spy on me, blocks ad-tech, offers an optional+private agent. @brave

(h/t El Gato Malo.)

nitter.app/search?q=from%3A%40bre… We at Brave started on Gecko in 2015. By almost all measures, Chromium/Blink won and we switched in late 2015, before first release (except on iOS where WebKit is mandatory). You need us to live to fight for a new engine later, not die on this hill now.

Those users who browse with Brave will be shielded.

Thanks for doing this. Happy to have signed.

I remember the good old days, when "Non-Governmental" meant no government funding. If NGOs are just arms of the (or a prior) executive branch, or even some clique of oligarchs + captured administrators/congress-creatures, they should be defunded. No "quasi-autonomous" NED, e.g.

To quote Bart Simpson: "I can do that but I don't wanna."

New comparison chart at brave.com below the fold, thanks to marketing privacy and webdev teams. More detailed comparisons with tests at privacytests.org.

Still a human rights crime. What can parents who can't afford to opt out do?

1/ The Godfather: "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." 2/ Postmodernist: "I'm gonna state a proposition no one understands." 3/ WEF: "We're gonna make a proposal you won't vote on but your corporation-owned governments will mandate." (1) is least bad. (2) led to (3).

bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/ch… Friend sent this pic today. Nothing against SJ, just boosting dmr.

This one may be too technical to attract the censor. medium.com/@yinonweiss/lets-…

Shameful behavior not befitting true scientists.

It's Official: JavaScript Is The Most Commonly Used Programming Language On Earth - ARC apl.as/tqwil#.VvGQnf9aLrU.tw…

At @nextjs conf, @rauchg keynoting.

@Brave hit 97.8M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in August 2025. Brave Search at 1.56B Queries Per Month (QPM) annualizes to 18.36B QPY. All-browsers summer slump is over. On to 100M MAU! Of particular note: from June to August 2025, we have seen a 26.4% increase in Linux MAU. 1/4

From the chans, knowledgeable comments welcome: “This looks like simple pilot error to me….Power losses happen ALL THE TIME and are usually related to US emission regs requiring low sulfur diesel (mandatory when entering US coastal waters) to be run in machinery designed to burn HFO. If you watch the footage you can see that the ship had very little ROT (rate of tum) and only started turning to the right after black smoke was seen coming from the stack. [Whoever] was on the bridge at the con panicked at the power loss and went FULL ASTERN which is usually the wrong move in most emergency shiphandling situations. Large motor ships like DALI have slow speed diesel engines where the crankshaft and the propeller shaft are directly connected, when you go from ahead to astern the engine stops, cams shifted, and the engine is restarted turning in the opposite direction using compressed air from tanks in the engine room. When the engine is put astern with headway it takes a LOT of compressed air and fuel to get it to restart hence the smoke. The smoke clears rapidly as the engine starts turning and the turbo(s) build boost. When you back or go astern on the engine it torques the stern of the ship to the left, all large ships back the stern to port, bow to starboard. In confined waters with little UKC the effect is even more pronounced. Looks to me like the ship only got the increasing ROT toward the bridge because they were backing the engine. It looks like they would not have hit the tower if they had done NOTHING!”

Great @Brave January 2025 growth in both desktop and mobile browsers, with acceleration of mobile. We hit 80M MAU; on our way to 100M users this year! We broke browser DAU & search QPD records in January. Strong month-over-month growth of DAU & QPD, not one-day outliers. 1/4

I uninstalled Flash.

I'm excited to be doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow, Nov. 14, on /r/IAMA. Join Brave CTO & co-founder @brianbondy and me at 12:45 PM PST to ask us anything!

Ten-day-sprint Mocha, 25 years old today, finished in time to be demo'ed via the mocha: console that looked close to this image, did not have Date (Ken Smith helped and we agreed per MILLJ to port java.util.Date, bugs and all), had strict ==, and of course had NaNs.

MSM is really obviously malevolent now. From Balenciaga, crime misreporting (forever), FTX, Epstein (who did not kill himself), <current-thing>, you name it. Stupidity for sure, but both stupidity and malice on display for demoralization. Some mentally ill "journalists", too.

Congratulations, and thanks for your work!

May 2024 was @Brave's biggest growth month on record. We knew this was coming from new daily users surging and +ive search growth returning. New users especially in Latin America, helped by getting to the top of the Google Play Store in some countries, drove browser growth. 1/4

Congrats to all the creators listed at batgrowth.com - and to the @Brave / @AttentionToken team. As @Mandarstwit observed, “There is only one other chart I know that had 250K content publishers sign up in 2 years - it was the iOS store.”

"A call to honesty in pandemic modeling" medium.com/@wpegden/a-call-t… "...the epidemic model being employed is actually implemented in Javascript, and run — live — in a users web browser. ...it is possible to hack their model to run past the end of October." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphic…

@Brave grew to 93.79M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in July 2025. Brave Search at 1.51B QPM annualizes to 17.8B QPY. Despite the browser summer slump, one of our strongest Julys on record. Monthly new browser users up 6.5% vs. June. Both browser and search hit all-time-highs. 1/4

1. Don’t use apps, at all or when you can use the mobile website in a browser such as @brave that permission-restricts and farbles location API and more. 2. Use an OS level VPN or network module that blocks location-tracking SDK traffic across all apps (Brave VPN does this).

medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… "Closed environments facilitate secondary transmission of [COVID-19]" Odds of primary case transmitting in a closed environment found to be 18.7x greater than in an open-air env. C19 seems very hard to transmit outdoors.

"Every browser except Brave, it found, shares details of users' browsing history with the companies that own them, along with identifiers that indicate the location or identity of the user. " businessinsider.com/web-brow… via @businessinsider

Btw, “Always Bet on JS” is a little over ten years old. See brendaneich.com/2011/09/capi….

bellard.org/quickjs/ (Fabrice Bellard is a superhacker.)