Web Privacy for the Masses:
Research-driven Privacy Features in Brave

Speaker: Ben Livshits

Ben Livshits is a Reader (Associate Professor++) at Imperial College London and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. He is also the Chief Scientist for Brave Software, the maker of a novel web browser with built-in ad blocking, which gives you a faster, more secure and privacy-preserving experience.

Abstract

Brave is a web browser that is currently used by over 20 million people worldwide, in part because it blocks third-party advertising by default, improving the end-user privacy and making browser faster. In this talk I will give a broad overview of many research and development efforts in the context of the Brave web browser targeting a reduction in online tracking. Some of the privacy-enhancing are based on research that goes back a decade, while others are a lot more on the "bleeding edge."