{"id":117141,"date":"2016-01-22T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dacgroup.com\/robs-roundup-mozilla-founder-announces-brave-browser-that-blocks-ads\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T21:40:25","slug":"robs-roundup-mozilla-founder-announces-brave-browser-that-blocks-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dacgroup.com\/en-ca\/insights\/blog\/paid-media\/robs-roundup-mozilla-founder-announces-brave-browser-that-blocks-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob\u2019s Roundup: Mozilla Founder Announces Brave Browser That Blocks Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mozilla<\/a> co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brendan_Eich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brendan Eich<\/a> unveiled his latest project, the open source Brave browser that automatically blocks ads and then replaces them with ads of its own. The company behind it, Brave Software, will take a 15 per cent cut of ad revenue generated. <!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>The Brave and the Ad Blocked<\/h2>\n<p>The entire principle of the Brave browser is that it will automatically block programmatic ads and tracking cookies. At the moment, most sites with ads are running both programmatic and more standard <a href=\"\/services\/search-engine-marketing\/\">display advertising<\/a>, though the shift to programmatic is happening more and more. So far, this just sounds like Adblock plus, preventing ads from coming up while you browse &#8211; the kicker is that somehow the system will then inject its OWN programmatic ads, through ad networks that work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brave.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brave<\/a> directly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/information-technology\/2016\/01\/mozilla-co-founder-unveils-brave-a-web-browser-that-blocks-ads-by-default\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7773\" src=\"\/wpe-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/FireShot-Screen-Capture-188-Brave-Software-I-Building-a-Better-Web-www_brave_com-1024x495.png\" alt=\"FireShot Screen Capture #188 - 'Brave Software I Building a Better Web' - www_brave_com\" width=\"1024\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/information-technology\/2016\/01\/mozilla-co-founder-unveils-brave-a-web-browser-that-blocks-ads-by-default\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This arstechnica article<\/a> makes a number of good points &#8211; including the fact that this won&#8217;t necessarily make your browsing experience any faster &#8211; ads still have to be downloaded and will adhere to the same format (ads are highly optimized for page load times as it is). 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And why would those ad platforms want to support a browser that is removing ad revenue from its traditional channels and mix in an extra layer of complexity? Won&#8217;t they be paying twice (once to get served on the site and then stripped out, then again to be served by Brave)?<\/p>\n<p>Even if the idea is to have a higher quality of ads with regards to format and <a href=\"\/services\/content-strategy\/\">content<\/a>, what incentive is there for ad platforms to go the extra mile and do the extra work?<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brave.com\/FAQ.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brave Faq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\">\n<div class=\"panel-heading\">\n<blockquote>\n<h4 class=\"panel-title\"><a class=\"accordion-toggle collapsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brave.com\/FAQ.html#collapseOne\"> 1. 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