50 PCWorld DECEMBER 2019REVIEWS
Brave 1.0: This excellent, privacy-
focused browser can make you
money, too
If you can’t get over the hurdle of giving away personal info to sign up for blockchain-based
payments, that’s fine. Brave’s browser is worth using on its own. BY HAYDEN DINGMANBrave Software’s new Brave
browser, which has emerged
out of a long beta into a
full-fledged Brave 1.0 release,
works in two ways: As a privacy-minded
browser that does everything it can to
minimize your footprint on the Web, and as aconvoluted means of paying people who
provide you the content that you read daily.
It’s been literally years since Brendan Eich,
the creator of JavaScript and the co-founder of
Mozilla, first spoke to PCWorld about trying to
balance privacy and ensuring that those that
created content were paid for their efforts.IMAGE: MARK HACHMAN