Google Chrome, which has ruled unchallenged as the king of internet browsers for the past decade, has gained increasing attention in the markets with billions of users around the world.
Chrome’s rivals, including Apple
A new Chrome Challenger – cryptocurrency-powered, privacy-focused Brave says it is attracting 20 million users with a choice of Chrome, Firefox and Safari – those who chose its “privacy” have increased 130% by brave users in just one year . -Day-default “model.
Google Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser with millions of users.
“Users are fed up with surveillance capitalism, and 20 million people have switched to a brand-new ad economy for a whole new web ecosystem that puts them back in control of their browsing experience,” said Brandon Ich, chief executive and co-founder of Brave New. Stated in a statement with the number.
Brave, which claims to aggressively block advertisers and trackers wherever they can, uses its by-default Brave Shields feature to block third-party ads, trackers, self-playing videos, and device fingerprinting.
“The global privacy movement is gaining traction, and this is an important step in our journey to make privacy-by-default a standard for all web users,” Ich added.
Bahadur is now a Buddhist with 20.5 million monthly active users, 8.7 million in November 2019 and 7 million daily active users, up from 3 million just 12 months ago. The number of so-called verified content creators on Brave, including YouTuber Philip Difranco, has also risen to nearly 1 million, up from 300,000 last year.
Unlike Chrome and most other browsers, Brave users are rewarded for seeing ads using its Basic Attention Token (BAT) cryptocurrency. Some then give it to creators on YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, GitHub and similar websites, with 26 million BAT tokens donated so far. Brave users can choose when to see ads and they prefer 70% advertising revenue.
However, Bahadur’s monthly active users and daily active users have steadily increased over the last year … [+]
Brave’s apparent success over the past year has come amid his campaign to encourage regulators to take control of Google Chrome’s dominance in the browser market.
In March, Bahadur filed a formal formal complaint against Google with the Irish General Data Protection Regulation Enforcer, where Google has European headquarters, arguing how the search giant behaves responsibly in collecting and sharing its users’ personal data.
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