Though Brave blocks ads by default, it also can be set to contribute money to websites, YouTubers and Twitch videogame streamers who sign up to receive payments from Brave users.

The more people use Brave, the better its chances of delivering on its hopes of an online advertising market that can target ads toward people's individual interests without infringing their privacy. Even Firefox - the browser formerly overseen by Brave co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Brendan Eich - has about a million users each month.īut it's still a notable figure, especially given that it's hard to get people to switch browsers once they're settled in.

The number of users is far short of the figures enjoyed by better established browsers, mostly notably Google's Chrome, which has more than a billion users and accounts for about 57 percent of web usage today. Roughly three quarters use the browser on mobile devices and one quarter on personal computers, and most users are in the United States or Europe, Brave said. 'User growth remains strong, and we anticipate millions more by the end of 2018,' Brave said in a blog post Friday.

Brave Software has 2.2 million people using its ad-blocking web browser and expects it'll roughly double that, or more, by year's end.

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