[$] The Brave web browser

The Brave web browser is a project froma new company called Brave Software. It was founded by Brendan Eich, who is theinventor of JavaScript and former developer and CTO at Mozilla; hehopes to dramatically re-invent the advertising model of the web whilestrengthening user anonymity and security. Brave's value proposition isthat instead of being served advertisements from web sites that use therevenue to pay their bills, users can opt to directly pay the contentproviders of their choosing with cryptocurrency. Also, there is arecognition of theutility of targeted advertising, so users have an option of saving a local,protected profile that can be used anonymously to obtain targetedadvertisements instead of having their online behavior tracked and sold bya third party.